Urban space
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Highlights
Tree or False?
Devised by Andrew Stuck of the Museum of London, this walkshop became a regular event as part of the Mayor of London’s London Tree Week, and subsequent Urban Tree Festivals. Everyone has heard ‘an old wives’ tale’ about a certain tree species, some of which have a layer of truth within them, others are downright
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Alisa Oleva the Walking Artist Inviting Us to View the City Differently • Inspiring City
Walking artist Alisa Oleva explores home, belonging and the hidden rhythms of urban life, inviting us to see familiar streets differently. Source: Alisa Oleva the Walking Artist Inviting Us to View the City Differently • Inspiring City
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Sounds of Home
Galen Koch, with Celia Morton and Annika Ross, created The First Coast’s Stonington Soundwalk, taking the listener on a walk past old sardine factories and music halls, neighborhoods and town piers, featuring the stories of local residents, both past and present. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Galen reflects on
Walk the Dial
Want to take better pictures? Then join our Walk the Dial Walkshop, a fun and informative way to brush up your digital photography skills, while getting out and about on foot. Check out the City – looking up and looking down – both in daylight and twilight – the buildings of the city draw the camera’s eye. Walk the
• Parks, Pleasure and Politics
A 90 – 120 minute walk with Travis Elborough an evocative and revealing exploration of Battersea Park, from it’s inception, it’s radical history, and how it has become a ‘jewel’ valued by local people as well as developers at the adjacent Embassy Gardens and Power station developments. Parks are such a familiar part of everyday life,
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Walking pieces
Excursions & DADA Tours: 1st Visit: Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre Church
An experimental 1921 Dada walk that mocked guided tours by leading participants to an ordinary Paris churchyard. Manifestos, absurd readings, and chance actions turned a banal site into anti-art, challenging tradition and redefining walking as perfor
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.
Intervenções urbanas/Exercício para a cidade I – Silhuetas
A participatory urban action by Paulo Bruscky invited the public to walk specific streets of Recife while reading any paper, shifting attention between page and city. On a sunny day, perception itself becomes the artwork—an exercise in seeing rather
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Listening to a City That Pushes Back
Amble Skuze created Normalised Interfacing, a wheelchair sound walk, which maps the experiences and thoughts of a wheelchair user in a new city. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Amble discusses the piece, and what lead to its creation. My piece, Normalised Interfacing, started with a commission from the Zentrum
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Building Momentum for Walking and Cycling in the Caribbean
Highlights from the Inspiring Action LAC Workshop in Santo Domingo In a region where walking and cycling are often overlooked in planning processes despite being essential to daily life, building... The post Building Momentum for Walking and Cycling in the Caribbean appeared first on Walk21.
Events
Light Dark: New England Quarter Brighton
Light & Dark: New England Quarter, Brighton is one of a series of action research half day events in 4 different locations (types of places) between London & Brighton before and after dark, to establish a simple and effective methodology to develop guidance in designing active and liveable neighbourhoods. Our aim is to develop guidance for
• In Love with Isabella
So, where are all those special places that touch our gentler souls, soften our hearts, enhance our romantic moments or just make us feel good? The Museum of Walking / Rethinking Cities Ltd are currently mapping romantic hotspots in cities across Europe, running an on-line Romantic Ribbons competition in which people recommend urban places and let
• Explore the Urban Forest
Discover London’s surprising and diverse canopy! Working with Paul Wood, author of London is a Forest (Quadrille, 2019) and London Street Trees (Safe Haven, 2017), Andrew Stuck from the Museum of Walking created a series of walkshops inviting participants to Explore the Urban Forest. According to a UN definition, 20% tree canopy gets you to forest status, and so London with
• Talking Townscape
A walk to mark the life and influence of Gordon Cullen, architect, illustrator and visual urbanist, born in August 1914. Writing in the Architectural Review, Gordon Cullen encapsulated the concept of visual coherence and organisation of our urban environment, under the theme of ‘townscape’. He wrote a seminal book with the title ‘Townscape’ published in 1961. Some have argued that
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