residencies
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Highlights
Made of Walking 2026 – Plan your journey through Prosperpolder
Made of Walking 2026. Public programme 13-17 September 2026. Whether you join us for a single afternoon, a full day or several days, you are warmly invited to walk, explore, learn and create alongside artists, researchers, local communities and environmental organisations.
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Walking between Worlds. Made of Walking Prosperpolder : walking a landscape
Walking Between Worlds reflects on Made of Walking Prosperpolder as an evolving walking arts practice. Through walks, performances and dialogue, it explores how artists, communities and landscapes co-create long-term ecological and social relationships.
Weather Walk
In October 2024, I spent four weeks as an artist in residence in rural Switzerland. I faced the weather on the same route (almost) every day. Based on the residency’s explorations I wrote a script to host a Weather Walk (Zurich/Psarades).
Anna Viola Hallberg talking walking
Made of Walking Returns to Belgium
After travelling around the globe, Made of Walking returns to Belgium, in Prosperpolder. Belgium provides a fitting place for this return. Situated at the crossroads of Europe, Prosperpolder embodies many of the questions that Made of Walking has explored over the past decade: borders and flows, ecology and industry, heritage and transformation, local communities and planetary processes. It is a landscape where the future of walking arts emerges through encounters between people, places and more-than-human worlds.
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Urban Mobility Cultures: Creative and Narrative Approaches to Moving in the City
A two-day scientific and public event marking the conclusion of the “Walking Landscapes of Urban Cultures” EU project. It explores the diverse and dynamic world of urban mobilities through cultural, narrative, literary, and creative perspectives.
Constellations Residency Open Call
The Royal Parks charity and UP Projects are launching a new 6-month paid residency for an early to mid-career artist with a socially engaged practice, starting in January 2026. The residency offers an artist the opportunity to develop their socially engaged practice, whilst building connections with Greenwich Park’s diverse local communities across Greenwich, Lewisham, and
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Open call for sound walk art residency in Catalonia
Contemporary Art Center Nau Côclea is opening a call for an art residency in Camallera (Catalonia), in the frame of Sound Walk September 2022, in collaboration with walk · listen · create. We invite artists, writers and researchers to apply for a residency of 2 weeks, from September 26th to October 9th 2022.
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Meet the Artists of Made of Walking 2026
For the tenth anniversary edition of Made of Walking in Prosperpolder, six international artists have been invited to spend nine days walking, researching and creating alongside local communities. Each artist develops a site-responsive project that grows through encounters with the landscape and the people who inhabit it.
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lorg-coise….footprint
In March 2014 I had a walking residency with Deveron Arts (now Deveron Projects) exploring the large expanse of land between the Aberdeenshire / Moray heartland in the north and the Cairngorm mountains in the south, encompassing the Ladder Hills. I walked widely, and often slowly, throughout the area, identifying sites or landforms of significance….often
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Caminatas Creativas de Atotonilco (2025)
Caminatas Creativas de Atotonilco (2025)Created as part of the Social Impact Residency at Camino al Arte in Atotonilco, México The Caminatas Creativas walking guide was created based on walks with local residents in and around Atotonilco, Méxic...
Drammen AiR Update #2
Today after waking up early, I enjoyed some playing around on my new …
Night Tone: Clare Qualmann, Saba Zavarei and Claire Hind
A night time headlight lit journey along Cornwall’s unforgiving sunken stone walled lanes following cues and memorised directions for a dont-trust-the-satnav destination. Arrived in a puddled carpark, engine silenced and lights out. Kestle Barton, we hoped What follows are some thoughts and impressions from joining a small group of artists and scholars for an, experimental work in progress performance by Clare Qualmann, Saba Zavarei and Claire Hind.towards the end of their residenc [...]
Events
Soundscape, Hörspiel, Conversation an online sound walk concert
Live sound works by artists in residence at the Nau Côclea Contemporary Creation Center, and the walk · listen · create sound walk art residency, in collaboration with Orquesta del Cos. Kao Huguenin, Pedro Freitas/Jimmy Solórzano, Azucena Momo, with a conversation with Geert Vermeire and Pedro Freitas in Hangar, Barcelona.
• Virtual launch & info session for 10th Walk Around Philadelphia
Walk Around Philadelphia has become a pilgrimage experience where hundreds (ranging in age from 12 to 94) have set out to explore the city's perimeter on foot. Join us via Zoom to launch the 10th Walk & learn more about the project!
1,000 Miles: Celebrating the 10th Walk Around Philadelphia
Join us to mark the completion of the 10th Walk & help celebrate JJ's 1,000+ miles around the city's edge! Learn about the project, share stories about the city's borders, and connect with others who have set out to explore the perimeter.