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Meadow Cultivators: Two Parks, One City, Many Steps
Meadow Cultivators grew from walks with local youth and neighbors over two underused lawns in the City of Syracuse, NY. The walks through emergent meadows of growing flora turned undervalued public fields into living drawings, exploring how walking in public space connects ecology, safety, and community.
Alternative DIY Walks
DIY Walk-Tours are city-specific sound walks based on local conversations and onsite research. Blending fantasy and reality, they guide participants through overlooked areas using audio narration and maps, revealing personal and collective urban memories.
Wells in Sturt and Marion
Works by local poet Lance Thomas were integrated in art panels within Hamilton Park Reserve, speaking to issues around urban sprawl, the decline of local food production, the impact of engineering on the local waterways, and the rise of car use.
Capturing the Castle; a journey through time
A podcast audio-walk from Llangollen Bridge to the summit of Castell Dinas Bran produced by Sarah Baylis & Sally Harrison, featuring a range of archival commentaries , from the 18thc century to the present day, voiced by members of the local community
Poole Park: Pathways to the Past
The People’s Park. By the Park’s People. This sound walk was created as a contribution to Poole Park Celebration Day, held on 29th July, 2021. The audio materials were sourced from online video clips, in which people documented their own experiences while visiting the Park. These were combined with excerpts from interviews with local people, to provide some additional perspectives about the Park and how it has changed over time. Together, this mosaic of sounds provides a unique insight into how people value the Park, and how they use it to have fun in so many different ways.
Hammer&Egg – an immersive Audiogame
The mechanisms that our brain uses to form answers are made up of complex processes. In the world of HAMMER&EGG, your decisions matter. The immersive audiogame dives into the broad topic of cognitive bias and follows your conclusions along the path.
A High Street Sound Walk on St Peter’s Hill, Grantham
Historic England, in partnership with the National Trust and Sound UK, has launched a series of self-guided sound walks for Heritage Open Days, including Sandra Kazlauskaite's ‘Traces and Echoes: Resounding Grantham's High Street.’ This immersive audio experience explores the evolving social and cultural history of Grantham's high street through stories and sounds from local residents, available to listen from 10 September via Historic England’s website.
Walking pieces
El Grand Tour 2023
This is a work shaped out of binaural recordings (please listen with closed headphones or quality earbuds to hear the immersive sound) made by me during a 3-week hike through the landscape of Aragon (Spain) starting from Pont de Suert to Sant Esteve de la Sarga. A group of artists walked all through the pre-Pyrenees,
Down to the Woods
Writer Arnold Thomas Fanning takes up photography, and quickly realises that to get better he will have to take a lot of photos: so he begins to go out with his camera on 'PhotoWalks.' This podcast documents a PhotoWalk in a local forest.
Clonbur le Chéile – sa Choill!
“Clonbur le Chéile – sa Choill!” is a binaural stereo soundwalk featuring local musicians and storytellers connected to Clonbur Woods, created to engage the community and encourage outdoor movement. Developed during summer 2020 with support from Culture Night and local authorities, it builds on previous online events to blend immersive audio with the natural environment.
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Guide for Making Submissions
This short guide will help you learn about consultations and how to make submissions. What is a consultation? Consultations are when local or national government ask for public feedback on projects or policies. Submitting on relevant consultations is a...
Proposals for councils to encourage walking and other non-car travel
Living Streets Aotearoa has developed the following proposals for local authorities to make walking and non-car travel more attractive options in the fuel crisis Introduction New Zealand currently faces a fuel crisis which appears unlikely to ease in t...
