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Walking piece
Marŝarto26 2026

Walking a straight line

A walk along a counter-intuitive straight line of our own making... using an OS map with a line drawn on it from our croft house in Brindister, West Burrafirth to the Ayre of Whalwick,

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.

Happened
 

Map Scramble 3

2026-03-26 19:00
Online

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 Côclea, our EU partner in the Walking Arts and Local Communities project, hosted a Confluence on ‘documenting

The Walking Body 7
WALC
Happened
 

Map Scramble 2

2026-03-25 19:00
Online

The second 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 Côclea, our EU partner in the Walking Arts and Local Communities project, hosted a Confluence on ‘documenting

The Walking Body 7
WALC
Curated news 03 Mar, 2021

A walk, with artist Jan Rothuizen — Livingmaps Network

Jan drew (and wrote) The Soft Atlas of Amsterdam: Hand Drawn Perspectives from Daily Life (2014) – as interviewer Jacob Wallett describes “is a sensitive, playful and detailed account of daily life as encountered in a number of places around the city. The book includes maps of districts, streets, bedrooms, even the air traffic control

Curated news 17 Oct, 2024

AI-generated Irchester nature walk highlights climate change

Walkers are provided with maps but are encouraged to use their intuition to move between waymarkers. Source: AI-generated Irchester nature walk highlights climate change

Walking piece
2020

Evening Walk

Evening Walk is a series of postcards, using my lockdown walks as reference and taking in aspects of landscape painting, photography, and map making.

Walking piece
1960

This Way Brouwn

This Way Brouwn (Stanley Brouwn) asked passers-by for directions, marking their chance drawings with his stamp. The participatory work explores movement, time, and space, inviting viewers to experience the artist’s perspective while becoming part of the art.

Walking piece
1972

A Walk of Four Hours and Four Circles

Consists of a map with said concentric circles indicated, along with the title.

Walking piece
Marŝarto25 2025

Maps of Being XIX

My walking drawing practice is an exploration of forms of thinking, feeling and knowing.

Happened
 

Map Scramble 1

2026-03-23 19:00
Online

There is growing interest in how each of us documents walking art, especially as walk · listen · create and its predecessor, the Museum of Walking, has been gathering archival walking pieces for almost 10 years. Early last year, Clara Gari of Nau Côclea, our EU partner in the Walking Arts and Local Communities project,

The Walking Body 7
WALC
Walking piece
2018

Review Islands Walk

Island walking: An exercise in Body Memory

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Walking pieces

Sound walk
2020

Exeter Sound Walks

25 Sound Walk maps composed in Exeter, England, from 2020 - 2022.

Articles on WLC

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

Curated news 01 Sep, 2024

Maps Mania: Anime Pilgrimage Maps

Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them. Source: Maps Mania: Anime Pilgrimage Maps

Curated news 14 Jul, 2022

Groundbreakers — Livingmaps Network

Introduction to the Groundbreakers project Source: Groundbreakers — Livingmaps Network

Curated news 28 May, 2021

Maps Mania: What is the Longest Tiny Loop?

Long Tiny Loop is an international fitness challenge to find “the longest possible non-self-intersecting loop within the smallest possible region, without revisiting any streets or intersections”. The explanation for Long Tiny Loop is a little complicated but I can assure you that once you explore the maps at the top of the competition leaderboard you

Articles elsewhere

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
Elspeth Penfold 90

Elspeth Penfold 2022-01-10 11:27:00

Plough Monday 2022 Setting the Furrow to the Plough With thanks to Sara Trillo for leading me to this destination for a walk in Kent and for the walking prompt by @SoniaOverall #Distance Drift. I have included my collage as  I map o...

Elspeth Penfold
Tough Soles Blog 95

Trail 40: The East Clare Way

OverviewCounty: ClareOfficial length: 180kmWhat we walked: 155km maybeStart...

Ellie Berry
Tough Soles Blog 95

Trail 38: The Burren Way

OverviewCounty: ClareTotal length: 114kmWhat we walked: 86.5kmStart point: ...

Ellie Berry

Links

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

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

stefaanvanbiesen

The website of Stefaan Van Biesen presents a comprehensive overview of his work as an artist and researcher, with a particular emphasis on walking as an artistic and investigatory practice. It features examples of his projects that intersect art, cultural geography, and performative walking, exploring spatial narratives and urban experiences through site-specific interventions. The content highlights key exhibitions, collaborations, and publications that reflect his interest in how movement and place-making contribute to cultural understanding. The site also documents Van Biesen’s approach to walking art as a tool for engaging with landscapes and social contexts, often merging personal reflection with broader socio-political themes. It includes visual materials such as photographs, videos, and maps that accompany his written explorations, providing insight into his methodologies and conceptual frameworks. Overall, the website situates Stefaan Van Biesen within the contemporary discourse on walking as a mode of critical inquiry and creative expression in cultural geography and art.
Stefaan van Biesen
Personal websites

guerrilla geography

Tactical, radical, creative, unusual and/or surprising geographies that challenge people to think differently about their relationships with places.

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