Nature
Highlights
Pymmes Brook Trail
A walk across North London following The Pymmes Brook listening to voices of people talking about the river. Available in Sonic maps using following PUID codes Part 1: Cockfosters to Arnos Park. CODE 994 Part 2: Bowes Meadow to Cambridge Roundabout A10. CODE 1007
Between Campuses
This walk is a 25 km walk between Braga and Guimarães, connecting university campuses. It reclaims walking as a daily practice, heightening awareness of the landscape. Beyond individual experience, it fosters connections, blending spiritual and physical challenges, where distance, proximity, and transformation emerge through movement and shared encounters.
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Echoes in the Fog: A Soundwalk from Moss to Jeløy
Brona Martin created MOSS – Mapping Otherworldly Soundscapes, an investigation and celebration of sound and an exploration of the relations between the natural and cultural worlds of Moss, Norway. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Brona discusses the piece. Often our first introduction to a new environment is experienced through
Thoughts on No Land
Thoughts on NO land is a GPS-guided walk through the Dutch nature reserve De Onlanden, with mini podcasts at ten locations, by Peter Veen. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Peter discusses his work. Not much happens in De Onlanden. The wind blows, small waves ripple, birds call, you
Creative Field Work in Forest Plantations
This interactive exposition shares the processes and findings of an artistic research project which uses sited creative practices – including field recordings, sound-making, walking practices and song – to explore Portuguese forest plantations.
Procession
*Procession* was performed in early 1974 when Teresa Murak wore a coat of cress seeds and walked through the streets of Warsaw, merging feminine labor, nature, and politics. The act, documented in photos and oral history, became a landmark feminist performance.
Books
Walking pieces
Shelter I & II, quartzite ridge
Shelter I & II reflect Nici Cumpston’s deep connection to Country and the traces of Aboriginal presence in the landscape. Created from a serendipitous misprint, the two reversed images were paired to form an imagined place of refuge within a harsh environment.
Silueta Series
Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Series (1973–1980) used her body or its imprint in nature, blending performance, land art, and photography to explore exile, identity, spirituality, and ephemerality, creating enduring, feminist, and postcolonial earth-body works.
Fissures, Holes, Limbs: Breathing Dislocated Scales
“Fissures, Holes, Limbs” is an eco-somatic night walk centering disability. A wide hat invites others to join and acts as a guide, marking the accessible width needed for wheelchair users as we move together under the full moon.
Articles on WLC
How did ferns, rocks and 1,000 km become a film?
Dario Laganà went on a 1000 km walk in Norway, and produced the short film Like a Fern Between Rocks, documenting this solitary, nomadic experience. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Marŝarto Awards 2025. Dario earlier wrote about his experience in A loud solitude, and goes deeper into his experience, below. All of my
Why Didn’t You Fly
Why didn’t you fly, my boyfriend replied (with a crying face emoji). It was a Thursday evening in late February, and I’d messaged to say I was already feeling sleepy despite having another train journey – of three hours – to embark on once I arrived by Eurostar in Paris. He asked me this before,
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Articles elsewhere
Morning at Hidden Valley
This morning, we joined a group of people for a walk around Hidden Valley organized by Nature Regina. We were guided by naturalist Dale Hjertaas. I hadn’t been there for a while, and new marked trails have been cut through the thickets of saskatoons and chokecherries. So many wildflowers are in bloom, and I learned …
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Events
Stalking Trees
We are not “tree huggers” but we do love trees, for we feel that they contribute more to our urban neighbourhoods than they detract. Urban trees are a hardy bunch, able to absorb not only natural hazards, but also man-made pollutants, restoring the quality of air we breathe, and providing habitat for many species of
• One For The Rook
A Nature Art Trail With A Difference – One For The Rook! One For The Rook is an exciting Nature Art Trail brought to you by the team who produced the Bergh Apton Sculpture Trails, and inspired by the books, Lost Words and Lost Spells, by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris. One For The Rook
Walking, Ruins, and Rural Communities: The Making of the Pisidia Heritage Trail
You are invited to the online lecture of Yazılıkaya Living Lab: Adaptive Futures for Rural Heritage course, Walking, Ruins, and Rural Communities: The Making of the Pisidia Heritage Trail by Işılay Gürsu (BIAA) on 7 November 2025.
and we walk: A Silent Meditative Walk with Harri Harrison
About Harri Harrison Harri Harrison is a multimedia artist whose practice integrates performance, textbased projections, plant-based work, and alternative photography processes, engaging directly with urban environments. Harri explores notions of place, community, grief, gratitude, and belonging, inviting us to reconsider our relationship to nature and future communities. Harri has over 12 years of experience leading creative workshops, collaborating with institutions such as Cubitt Gallery, PEER Gallery, and Phytology at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve.
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