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.

Made of Walking – Prosperpolder | 11–17 September 2026, Belgium. A week of walking, art, ecology, care and exchange on the Belgian-Dutch border. Join artists and partners from across Europe. Free participation. Apply by 15 August.

Our journey, in early July 2026, to Fort Liefkenshoek with Marc Dhaenens, Anna Maria Mestdagh, and me is, to say the least, sobering. The route leads us through a landscape of container terminals, towering loading cranes, bridges, chemical plants, and an almost endless network of roads crowded with heavy trucks moving in every direction. Everything

During the first two editions of Made Of Walking by The Milena principle (2015 and 2016, Delphi, Greece), we had the opportunity to meet two remarkable walking artists: the Dutch artist Ienke Kastelein and the Greek artist Katerina Drakopoulou. Through numerous international projects, their artistic practices have become widely recognized within the field of walking

Made of Walking is an international series of artistic encounters, residencies and laboratories initiated in 2016 by The Milena Principle and its partners. Bringing together artists, researchers, local communities and environmental organisations in remote, peripheral and border landscapes across Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond, each edition explores walking as an artistic, ecological and regenerative cultural practice. Artist residencies, walkshops, performances, exhibitions, collaborative mapping, public conversations and site-responsive interventions become opportunities not simply to produce artworks, but to cultivate enduring relationships between people, places and more-than-human worlds.

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.

Introducing the new WALC partner The Milena Principle: a nomadic artistic platform that understands walking as movement, relation, and utopia. Through Made of Walking, it cultivates walking as a commons: collective, ecological, ethical, and performative. Rooted in Renaissance humanism and Spaziergangwissenschaft, its practices dissolve boundaries between art and life, foregrounding care, encounter, migration, and shared imagination across places, species, and communities and futures together.

Walking as a question International Walking Encounters/ConferenceSunday July 4th to Sunday July 11th 2021, Prespa, Greece What questions does walking pose? What questions can walking be used to explore? Who walks? Who chooses to walk? Who is forced to walk? Who can walk? Who cannot? Open call for participation in Prespa or on distanceOpen call

Cyril Bron's motorway walk at the Walking Encounters in Girona

This creative project wants to geolocate and map, on a global scale, the before, during and after of the coronavirus lockdown, through recordings of the stories of people, told in the libraries of their homes during quarantine and about the public gardens that they remember. The recordings are simultaneously transferred in an augmented audio project,