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Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers

Karen O'Rourke
Happened
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World Labyrinth Day

The Labyrinth Society
2 May, 2020 · All day

The Labyrinth Society is excited to announce Walk around the World, a 24-hour international online event on World Labyrinth Day, that will connect people virtually across time zones on the GoToMeeting platform. An amazing group of worldwide labyrinth community volunteers are offering virtual labyrinth walks and presentations as we Walk around the World from New

Sound walk SWS20
2020

Street Haunting: Reflections on staying at home and walking the city

Johanna Steindorf’s audio paper reflects on how pandemic-related sheltering in place has altered experiences of staying at home and walking in the city, drawing on Virginia Woolf’s and Xavier de Maistre’s writings. She discusses her artistic projects, including video and audio walks that explore mediated presences in urban spaces, examining their implications for understanding space and future experiences.

Drifting Bodies / Fluent Spaces
video SWS21 2021  

Sound walking in the Anthropocene

Sound artist Anne Cecilie Lie invites to a discussion around sound walking in the Anthropocene and raises questions about global technology and ecology, how it affects art practices by working with locative technologies and smartphones.

Sound Walk City · prelude
Curated news 20 Oct, 2025

This October, a Global Public Art Project Turns 35 Cities into Playgrounds — Colossal

From Stellenbosch, South Africa, to Valencia Spain, ‘uncommissioned’ has tapped 54 artists to work on public projects. Source: This October, a Global Public Art Project Turns 35 Cities into Playgrounds — Colossal

Curated news 04 Sep, 2025

-New Zealand Repositions Cultural Tourism Through Art Trails, Māori Experiences and Outdoor Installations-

New Zealand targets creative tourism with immersive art trails, Māori heritage experiences and regional cultural hubs to strengthen its global visitor economy. Source: -New Zealand Repositions Cultural Tourism Through Art Trails, Māori Experiences and Outdoor Installations-

Curated news 20 Jun, 2025

National Geographic Out of Eden Walk

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek is retracing on foot the global migration of our ancestors in a 38,000 km, seven-year odyssey that begins in Ethiopia and ends in Tierra del Fuego. Source: National Geographic Out of Eden Walk

Curated news 23 Dec, 2024

‘Each step we take is an escape’: the intrepid hikers exploring war-torn Yemen | Global development | The Guardian

Few Yemenis hike, and female hikers are even rarer. But one group is overcoming security and social challenges to enjoy the benefits of walking in nature Source: ‘Each step we take is an escape’: the intrepid hikers exploring war-torn Yemen | Global development | The Guardian

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Score #8 – Jackie Bourke

Score #8 by Jackie Bourke [score base: a picture of a kitchen with yellow walls; photo and score: Jackie Bourke (2021); score text: The Art of Travel/controlled by an institutional power/ominous little warning signs/slowness is a defining feature./wh...

Blake Morris
Blake Morris
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New audio work part of Until We Travel Sound Project by Cities & Memory

Fantastic global sound map project just launched by Cities & Memory reimagining the sounds of travel and transportation in a pre-pandemic and pandemic world. GO TO MARKET TRADERS MOVE ASIDE FOR A TRAIN, PERÚ > PLAY This is a new composition exp...

Elisabetta Senesi
Elisabetta Senesi Web Site
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Proposals: XV International Conference on Walking and Liveable Communities

Submissions will be open until 14 March 2104 The Premier of New South Wales and the Mayor of Sydney, Australia are pleased to be hosting the XV International Conference on Walking and Liveable Communities in October 2014. The conference will provide a platform to unpack the policies that are working to support people walking and […]

Lopez de la Torre
Walking and Art

stravaig

To roam, wander idly, or gad about in an aimless, casual manner; a stroll with no particular purpose or destination. Scots and Northern English, also written stravage. Source: Dictionaries of the Scots Language, ‘stravaig’.

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