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Sound walk SWS26 New 2025

Smugglers’ Run Heritage Trail

Smugglers Run is a one-of-a-kind cultural trail on Mudeford Quay (Dorset, UK). The trail includes 16 publicly-accessible signs that incorporate text, illustrations, models, rubbings, and audio re-enactments of the real-life smugglers of Christchurch.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2012

In Between Camps

In Between Camps” was a two‑day walking artwork tracing the ancient aqueduct route from al‑Arroub to Solomon’s Pools. The project used the act of walking to explore connections between land, history, landscape, and contested space in Palestine.

post Curated news 20 Jul, 2021

Tranquillity | Wellcome Collection

New exhibition on Tranquillity at the Wellcome Collection in London – – runs until January 2022 with virtual tour also available. Take a deeper look at feelings of peace and balance. Tranquillity brings peace and balance, helping you to reconnect with yourself and your surroundings. There may be a wonderful simplicity to experiencing such calm

post Curated news 04 Apr, 2023

The Women Artists Commemorated on an NYC Sidewalk

The signatures of Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, and six other historical women artists are engraved on a small stretch of sidewalk on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Source: The Women Artists Commemorated on an NYC Sidewalk

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS25 2024

East Grand Forks Walking Tour

Explore 14 historic stops in East Grand Forks on a free self-guided walking tour. Stories of settlement, Prohibition, and flood recovery come alive with GPS + audio via PocketSights or the printed map. 60–90 minutes.

Sound walk
Sound walk 2017

Paths Traveled

This walking work features 10 audio walking tours conducted by community members.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS20 2020

A Garden Through Time

This geo-located audio walk traces the boundary of the Headingley Zoological and Botanical Gardens in Leeds, which operated from 1840 to 1858. Featuring ten stops along a short route starting at Burley Park Station, it incorporates archival records and local artists' responses to explore the Gardens' history and legacy.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS20 2020

London Street Noises 2020 self-guided geolocated soundwalk

A self-guided soundwalk app, "ECHOES interactive sound walks," presents 1928 recordings of five historical London street soundscapes, available throughout September by searching "LSN" in the app. The geolocated map features period audio, commentary, and contextual materials tied to original recording sites, alongside opportunities for users to contribute contemporary soundscape recordings via the HUSH City app.

Sound walk
Sound walk 2017

The Museum of Yesterday

The Museum of Yesterday (Museu do Ontem) is a mobile app offering around 160 location-specific stories, articles, audios, and videos about Rio de Janeiro’s old port, Porto Maravilha, accessible only by physically visiting the sites. Developed with Agência Pública and featuring art by Juliana Russo and narration by Anelis Assumpção, the bilingual app emphasizes exploration through a non-interactive map that limits visible areas to the device screen.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2020

SWAMP WALK

Swamp Walk is a storytelling time series that explores the historical, cultural, and ecological significance of The Great Swamp in New Jersey. It features archival graphics from the 1959–1970 jetport battle, highlighting both the area's environmental value and its contested past.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2019

Disappear

The act of getting lost is translated in ‘How Disappear Completely?’; a mobile game for experiencing the paths of Kemeraltı.

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Radical Stroud 65

The National Trust, Counter-Heritage and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heritage and Counter-Heritage: Are They So Very Different? Two recent visits to ‘historic’ houses and a recent walk have made me question the usual binary opposition of heritage and counter-heritage, and got me thinking that perhaps they lie rather mo...

Stuart Charles Butler
40 Walks Blog 90

Walking with Mary Nixon on 2 February, 2013

Conwy I am walking with my Aunty Sos (proper name Mary Nixon, née Mary Duncalf). I also like to think that we are walking with my mum, Prunie (proper name June Heddon, née June Duncalf). June was one of 12 siblings who grew up in the small town of Conwy, in North Wales. My Aunty Sos […]

Deirdre Heddon

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Placecloud

Placecloud is a location-based storytelling platform that connects short, place-specific audio stories to precise geographic viewpoints. Using a mobile device and map interface, listeners can discover recordings tied to particular locations and hear them while standing at or looking toward the place being described. Each recording typically highlights a fragment of history, an overlooked anecdote, or a curious detail about the surrounding environment, turning ordinary viewpoints into entry points for exploring the layered narratives of a city or landscape. The platform emphasizes concise, well-researched micro-histories that enrich a visitor’s experience of place without requiring a full guided tour. Contributors can create new viewpoints by recording short narrations linked to specific coordinates and directions, allowing a distributed network of storytellers to expand the collection over time. Through this approach, Placecloud builds a growing archive of geographically anchored stories that encourage people to slow down, observe their surroundings, and encounter places through unexpected historical and cultural perspectives.
Babak Fakhamzadeh
Platforms Podcasts
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walknow

The website walknowtracks.co.uk serves as an archive and resource focused on walking routes primarily within the United Kingdom. It catalogues a diverse range of walks, emphasizing detailed route maps, descriptions, and geographical points of interest along each path. The platform integrates cultural and historical contexts related to the routes, enriching the understanding of the landscapes and communities encountered during the walks. The site also enables users to access walking tracks with GPS data, supporting an intersection of digital navigation and traditional walking practices. Additionally, walknowtracks.co.uk functions as a hub for walking enthusiasts and researchers interested in exploring how walking intersects with cultural geography and spatial experience. Through its curated walks, the site documents the relationship between physical movement across terrains and the cultural narratives embedded within those spaces. This approach reflects the broader field of walking art, where walking is both an act of exploration and a method of engaging with place-specific stories, heritage, and environment.
Richard White
Personal websites
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Walk Coach Learn

WalkCoachLearn is an online platform dedicated to combining walking with educational content to promote learning through experiential engagement. It offers guided walking tours, often integrated with historical, cultural, or environmental narratives, allowing participants to explore landscapes while gaining contextually rich knowledge. The platform emphasizes the value of movement in enhancing cognitive absorption and reflection and supports various themes ranging from local history and heritage to contemporary social issues. The site also provides resources and tools for educators and walkers interested in designing their own learning walks, highlighting best practices in facilitating outdoor educational experiences. By merging physical activity with informative content, WalkCoachLearn situates walking as a dynamic mode of cultural discovery and reflective practice. The platform's approach aligns with trends in cultural geography that recognize embodied experience and place-based learning as vital to understanding spatial and social phenomena.
Anise Bullimore
Projects

oversupinate

People who jog, run, and sprint have their share of problems that slow-moving people can barely comprehend. One is oversupination. As the OED defines it, to oversupinate is “To run or walk so that the weight falls upon the outer sides of the feet to a greater extent than is necessary, desirable, etc.” A 1990 Runner’s World article gets to the crux of the problem: “It’s hard to ascertain exactly what percentage of the running population oversupinates, but it’s a fraction of the people who think they do.” Credits to Mark Peters.

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