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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 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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
The Tour of All T...
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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. &...
Radical Stroud
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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...
POINTS D'OU...
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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 […]
Walking without a...
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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
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Shared Earth, Unequal Burdens: Living Maps for Environmental Justice
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
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walkingevent
Map Ramble
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
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walkingevent
WALC Online Course Session 9 – Art of Mapping and Counter-Mapping
Focusing on maps as artistic and cultural tools, the session analyses how mapping and counter-mapping shape perception, experience and power.
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WALC Course
WALC
Happened
walkingevent
Space Writing – Peace Walk
Participants trace the letters of the word Peace (in their own language) onto a map of the city. These letters become walking routes.
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The Walking Body 7
WALC
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.