ecology
Highlights
Walking Between Worlds: how Lydia Matthews stepped out of the classroom and kept walking
“It was risky,” she admits. “I never asked permission. But it was deeply transformative.” The students learned to trust their senses and find an ease with uncertainty
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Common Ground: Embroidering the Map of Beveren
Common Ground invites participants to explore Beveren through walking, storytelling and embroidery. Together they create a collective map by stitching memories, trees and meaningful places into a shared tapestry celebrating local landscapes and ecolo
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Walking pieces
Walking the questions
A 40 day performative walk through northern Spain, wearing a business suit embroidered with other peoples’ question in order to live (into) them, listening to human and none-human beings, making connections, finding and creating new stories.
Rain at Mavrovo National Park
This post discusses the concept of Digital Ecology, exploring how technology can be critically adapted to support the natural world rather than harm it. It includes a sound walk piece created from digitally processed field recordings made at Mavrovo National Park, a mountainous area with an artificial lake near Skopje.
Colne Rising
Set in the year 2067, this spoken-word walking performance imagines a future Northern England where rising seas have transformed the A1 into a coastline, flooding areas up to 75 miles inland. Writer and performer Sarah Hymas guides participants through a lyrical exploration of this altered landscape, blending familiar places with speculative environmental change.
Articles on WLC
Bog walking: Exploring Estonia’s otherworldly wild landscapes
Once feared as homes to spirits, Estonia’s bogs cover a fifth of the country and are vital to its culture and ecology. Today, travellers can explore them on guided bog-shoe treks. Source: Bog walking: Exploring Estonia’s otherworldly wild landscapes
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Land Body Ecologies Festival | Wellcome Collection
Explore the deep connections between mental health and ecosystem health in this four-day festival created by Land Body Ecologies (LBE), from teams across India, Uganda, Kenya, Thailand, the UK and the Arctic. Take part and experience performances, food, workshops, music, films and more. On Day One, join a workshop with Chris Watson on field recording…
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Events
Meandering through the landscape
We are excited to have award-winning naturalist and author Stephen Rutt as our Walking Writers Salon guest in June. Too long have we taken water for granted – it is a crucial element that keeps our world alive, without it there is no life. Following the path of a raindrop to the sea, from the
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Walking without a donkey
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