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Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto26 New 2026

“A Victim” – a walk around Aberystwyth

A route pursuing locations mentioned in a deeply strange book

Free
walkingevent New  

Common Ground: Embroidering the Map of Beveren

2026-09-15 08:00
Erfgoedhuis Hof ter Welle, Anna Piersdreef, Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, Belgium

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

Made of Walking
WALC
Free
walkingevent New  

Data Walking

2026-09-15 08:00
Erfgoedhuis Hof ter Welle, Anna Piersdreef, Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, Belgium

Data Walking is a participatory workshop exploring walking as a creative method for collecting, interpreting and visualising environmental observations. Participants transform everyday encounters into maps, stories and new insights about place throug

Made of Walking
WALC
Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto26 New 2026

Live Field diary. Of walking on foot Iceland

A live interactive field diary during my 3 months on foot in Iceland

post Curated news New 01 Jul, 2026

The Map — Jerry’s Map

In the summer of 1963 Jerry began drawing a map of an imaginary city. The work started as a doodle done in the spare time he had while working at a tedious job. He continued to add to that map through the years until, in 1983, he set it aside to put his free time

Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas

Rebecca Solnit
video walk · listen · café 2026  

WALC Map Scramble 3 – documenting walking art with maps and mapping

Walking artist presenters in this video: Tamsin Grainger, Hannah Stageman, Fiona Hooton, Bill Psarras and Petra Johnson The third of an initial series of three Map Scrambles in which walking artists share how each of them documents walking art, specifically be adapting, modifying or creating their own maps. Early last year, Clara Gari of Nau

The Walking Body 7
WALC
video 2026  

WALC Map Scramble 2 – documenting walking art with maps and mapping

Walking artist presenters featured in this video are: Marlene Creates, Ruth Broadbent, Idit Nathan, Martin Eccles, Barbara Lounder and Rachel Gomme. Please note that some technical issues were encountered when showing the presentations. For a Summary of this meeting please see the post “Scrambling for maps“. The second of an initial series of three Map

The Walking Body 7
WALC

Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier

Jon Day
post Featured 24 Mar, 2026

Scrambling for maps

March 2026 we are holding 3 online Map Scrambles, in which artists will be discussing when and why they use maps or mapping to document their walking art. Map Scramble 1 (Monday 23 7pm GMT)   Map Scramble 2 (Wednesday 25 7pm GMT) Map Scramble 3 (Thursday 26 7pm GMT) Each events part of the

Happened
walkingevent  

New Directions: The theory and practice of radical mapmaking in India

Livingmaps Network
2026-03-11 13:00
Online

Join us for the final event in our Livingmaps Network Seminar Series, Mapping Fluid Worlds, With Savyasachi Anju Prabir: In which we discuss the theory and practice of radical mapmaking in India with a short film screening of Altodi Poltodi

walkingevent New  

Attending Landscapes: Walking, Listening and Mapping with Harri Harrison

IMT Gallery
13 Sep - 25 Oct, 2026
Online

Harri has over 14 years of experience leading creative workshops, collaborating with institutions such as Cubitt Gallery, PEER Gallery, and Phytology at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve and IMT Gallery.

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Books

The Memorial Walks

Simon Pope

Lorg-Coise: Footprint

Gill Russell

Lines Lost: Huntly – Portsoy

Stuart McAdam

Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers

Karen O'Rourke

Walking pieces

Walking piece
Walking piece 1999

Feliz Aniversário (Happy Birthday)

Feliz Aniversário is a performance in which the artist visited every Rio street named after a calendar date on its corresponding day, mapping the journeys and photographing each visit to create a yearlong record of time and urban space.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2012

Alter Bahnhof Video Walk

Created for dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, the Alter Bahnhof Video Walk by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller guides viewers through a train station via iPod, blending filmed past and present into an uncanny “physical cinema” about memory and presence.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2004

Buenos Aires Tour

Buenos Aires Tour begins with a pane of glass smashed onto a city map, its cracks forming eight arbitrary routes. Guided by chance, texts, recordings, and found objects create an intimate portrait where the historic and the everyday meet.

Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto26 2025

Terminalia Festival Walk 2025

An imagined and conjured processional route connecting three prehistoric burial cairns on Shetland’s West Side, as indicated on either the OS 6 inch first edition map of 1878 or the modern 1:2500.

Articles on WLC

post Curated news 22 Apr, 2026

Nao Lee’s posters are digital terrains that hide small and unruly treasures for you to find

To craft her noisy compositions, the designer is drawn to everything that is at odds with playing by the rules. Source: Nao Lee’s posters are digital terrains that hide small and unruly treasures for you to find

post Curated news 04 Apr, 2026

17 ways the middle class have ruined walking holidays

Remember when hiking was all about reading a map, chomping Kendal Mint Cake and rousing renditions of “We’ll be coming round the mountain”? Source: 17 ways the middle class have ruined walking holidays

post Featured Marŝarto25 02 Jan, 2026

Walking, Mapping, and the Plurality of Place

Christopher Kaczmarek hosted a walkshop at WAC25 called Drawing Cartographies of Perception, exploring the personal and subjective nature of navigation and cartography and the diverse ways people perceive and move through space.His work is shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Below, he reflects on the piece. A map is never a place. It is a translation, an abstraction,

WAC25: Walking Home / Walking in Transition
post Curated news 21 Nov, 2025

Map, Demap and Reroute | Humans

Burn all the maps to you for a better life Source: Map, Demap and Reroute | Humans

Articles elsewhere

The Tour of All T... 90

Congregation – a sound guided walk and audio composition

Congregation is a word I usually associate with Christianity: the congregation go to the church to celebrate mass. This was a different sort of congregation: a coming together of people carrying metallic balls through the streets of Macau.  &...

Bill Aitchison
Radical Stroud 30

STEAM Museum Swindon

Dear Famous Five, If you want a great day out then you ought to come to the STEAM Museum in Swindon. Because this is what I saw when here today on holiday:   A gift shop, a fire engine, giant locomotive wheels, name plates and numbers, signals, ho...

Stuart Charles Butler
POINTS D'OU... 85

Sons à la carte

J’ai déjà commis plusieurs articles concernant le sujet, mais régulièrement, la question de la représentation graphique, cartographique, du sonore, revient questionner mon travail. Avant Google Maps et le GPS, on déployait les cartes papier et les atlas pour envisager les voyages et randonnées.C’était une façon de préparer logistiquement, mais aussi mentalement, nos périples, en famille […]

Gilles Malatray
Walking without a... 90

Sweat mapping

Sweat Mapping was an exercise Anne-Marie carried out on a walk from Girona to Banyoles as part of the Walking Arts Encounters 2024

Tamsin Grainger

Events

Happened
walkingevent  

Shared Earth, Unequal Burdens: Living Maps for Environmental Justice

Livingmaps Network
25 - 26 Jun, 2026
Senate House Building, Malet Street, London, UK

Livingmaps Annual Conference: bringing together artists, academics and activists together for 2 days of talks, workshops and activities exploring environmental justice through the lens of counter and participatory mapping

Happened
walkingevent  

Map Ramble

Museum of Walking / Rethinking Cities
3 Mar, 2007
Multiple locations

Map Rambles were created in March 2007 by Andrew Stuck and Tim Waterman, who had an inspiration prompted by visits to the London: A Life in Maps exhibition at the British Library. Map Rambles are self-guided walks that incorporate themes inspired by events and exhibitions, in which participants explore areas and come together to discuss and

Happened
walkingevent  

WALC Online Course Session 9 – Art of Mapping and Counter-Mapping

2026-05-23 07:30
Online

Focusing on maps as artistic and cultural tools, the session analyses how mapping and counter-mapping shape perception, experience and power.

WALC Course
WALC
Happened
walkingevent  

Space Writing – Peace Walk

WALC - Walking Arts & Local Communities
2026-03-23 14:30
Garagem Avenida EAAD, Avenida Dom Afonso Henriques, Guimaraes, Portugal

Participants trace the letters of the word Peace (in their own language) onto a map of the city. These letters become walking routes.

The Walking Body 7
WALC

Videos

video 2026  

WALC Map Scramble 1 – documenting walking art with maps and mapping

Map Scramble 1 – presenters David Haley (UK), Lucy Furlong (UK), Janette Kerr (UK) and Emily Artinian (US) For a Summary of this meeting please see the post “Scrambling for maps“. There is growing interest in how each of us documents walking art, especially as walk · listen · create and its predecessor, the Museum

The Walking Body 7
WALC
video 2002  

Taking a Line for a Walk

Taking a Line for a Walk documents Susan Stockwell mapping the historic boundary of Stockwell, South London, by walking its 2.7-mile perimeter with a line-drawing machine, creating a temporary public drawing that transformed mapping into a lived, performative act.

Links

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walk1000miles.co.uk

Walk 1000 Miles is a community-oriented website that promotes walking culture and physical activity through a structured challenge. The platform allows participants to record their walks and collectively track progress toward the milestone of 1,000 miles, fostering motivation and a sense of shared achievement. The site includes resources such as walking routes, tips for walkers, and a supportive environment that encourages consistent engagement with walking as a daily physical activity. The initiative behind Walk 1000 Miles integrates elements of cultural geography by encouraging exploration of local environments, pathways, and landscapes through walking. The collective aspect not only emphasizes personal health benefits but also cultivates community interaction and an appreciation of diverse walking terrains across various regions. The program is designed to be accessible, promoting walking as an inclusive activity that can contribute to both individual wellness and broader social connectivity.
Nick Hallissey
Platforms
url

www.annececilielie.com

Anne Cecilie Lie's website presents her work at the intersection of walking, art, and cultural geography. The site details her explorations of landscapes and urban environments through embodied walking practices, emphasizing the sensory and experiential dimensions of place. It features her engaging with issues such as memory, identity, and environmental perception, often blending artistic expression with academic inquiry. The site includes documentation of her projects, which combine maps, text, photography, and sound to articulate nuanced spatial narratives. It also highlights her collaborations and exhibitions, illustrating how her practice situates walking as a form of knowledge production within both art and cultural geography disciplines.
Anne Cecilie Caroline Brunborg Lie
Personal websites
url

writethemap

The website "Write the Map" is a creative project that explores the intersections of writing and place through the practice of walking. It documents how literary texts and geographic locations influence one another, highlighting the spatial dimensions of narrative and authorship. The site features essays, maps, and visual materials that examine the relationship between landscapes, urban environments, and the act of writing, situating literary production within specific cultural and geographical contexts. The project also engages with themes of cultural geography by considering how walking serves as both a method of inquiry and a form of artistic expression. It brings attention to how movement through space can shape literary imagination and create new modes of storytelling. Through various contributions and archival materials, "Write the Map" offers insights into how physical journeys and textual narratives reciprocally inform each other, framing walking as a durational and spatially aware creative practice.
Personal websites

scurrifunge

To work or walk hurriedly. from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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