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The Walking Assembly 2026
he Walking Assembly 2026 (9–13 May 2026) is a nomadic, field-based gathering in Catalonia for artists, researchers, educators, and collectives interested in walking as a form of embodied, relational, and ecological knowledge. As a continuation of the biannual "Walking Arts and Relational Geographies" conferences, in collaboration with Made of Walking and other partners, it marks a shift from conference to assembly, proposing learning without teaching—where knowledge arises through shared walking, presence, attention, and collective experience. Beginning with a public Confluence in Salt (Girona), featuring a conversation with Tim Ingold, and continuing as a four-day walking expedition based in Albanyà, the Assembly follows the Muga River as both material guide and metaphor. Water, movement, and being together in place shape an experimental pedagogy grounded in care, reciprocity, and co-creation.
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WALC! – Practices and cultures of urban walking | Università di Padova
A research feedback exhibition, an illustration exhibition, and the installation of two public art works in the railway station area: this is how the project WALC (Walking Landscapes of Urban Source: WALC! – Practices and cultures of urban walking | Università di Padova
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New Directions: The theory and practice of radical mapmaking in India
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
TRACE: A Remote Geography of the Mind
This project explores how we can create new geographies of the mind by collaboratively exploring our local environments slowly, at a very small scale, and by hand rather than on foot. Working together, artists Chris Kaczmarek and Deirdre Macleod each recorded, using Whatsapp, a sequence of concurrent haptic walks in which each artist draws attention
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Invitation to Walk – Hör-Spiel-Spaziergang ‘Kreislauf’ in Berlin-Friedrichshain
The four episodes lead and allure to body-perception experiments while walking. They are intended for individual or collective appropriation of the city – with and through somatics, choreography and artistic research.
Walking pieces
Transeuntis Mundi – Web Derive 01
The Transeuntis Mundi Project uses immersive 360° walkscape recordings to create a transmedial archive of cultural heritage from diverse global sites, currently representing four countries across four continents. Led by Brazilian artist Candida Borges and Colombian researcher Gabriel Mario Vélez, the project integrates technology, nomadic practices, and artistic research to produce virtual reality works, audiovisual compositions, and performances reflecting millennial human passage.
Walking It
This series features occasional walking dialogues and reflections that investigate how place and walking influence people's ways of knowing and being. Facilitated by Jerry O’Neill from Maynooth University's Department of Adult Education, the project explores walking as a method for education and research.
Articles on WLC
Women needed for Project Research – As We Run (or Walk), We Become – HOME
Throughout July August and September, in the lead up to her show Endurance, theatre maker Jenni Jackson invites you to take a journey with her to start the conversation about and with individuals who identify as women, who spend time outdoors alone, this may be as a runner, walker or however you move through the
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Events
Making Connection: Merri Creek sensewalk
Extend your senses and develop new appreciations of Merri Creek on an 'experience walk' that combines the arts and sciences. Using listening and embodiment exercises and field observations, we will gain more appreciation of how humans and nature interact.
Pandemic walking (seminar)
The Covid 19 crisis of 2020-21 has taken many names, including “The Great Pause.” It has forced us to halt our usual habit patterns and critically reflect on how we conduct our daily lives. New forms of movement and sociability have emerged in the wake of this global pandemic. Why and how do people develop
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Walking Festival of Sound
Walking Festival of Sound is a transdisciplinary event exploring the role of walking through and listening to our everyday surroundings. It combines a number of free and public events including walking performances, walking seminars and listening sessions, all taking place in diverse public spaces and online. Walking Festival of Sound facilitates a meeting point for
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