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Shane O’Mara talking walking

27 May, 2026 · Talking Walking
Andrew Stuck is peppering Shane O’Mara with a number of questions as we pace around Queens Square in Bloomsbury London As a professor of experimental brain research with a couple of best selling books on Walking and on talking this Dublin resident must …
Walking piece Marŝarto25 Shortlisted
2025

Municipal Walker

A long term practice of monthly ritualised walking in service of the city of Dublin, Ireland undertaken by a self-designated city council employee. I work for the city, I am of the city, I am the city. First made public in 2025 by artist Lian Bell.

Sound walk SWS24
2024

ReRoot

ReRoot is a hybrid soundwalk performance created by composer and sound artist Robert Coleman and dancer and choreographer Laura Sarah Dowdall for the Barnaslingan Wood, in the Dublin Mountains.

Declan O‘Rourke in Kinvara

17 Dec, 2021 · Folk on Foot
The acclaimed singer and songwriter Declan O’Rourke takes us for a scenic walk near his home in the beautiful fishing village of Kinvara on the west coast of Ireland, singing songs inspired by the area as he goes.  Declan’s grandfather, an artist, was born…
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Curated news 02 May, 2023

Dublin can be heaven with new soundtrack app for visitors to St Stephen’s Green – The Irish Times

Dublin’s city centre park joins Central Park and Regent’s Park in having a specially tailored Soundwalk composition designed to enhance the visitor experience Source: Dublin can be heaven with new soundtrack app for visitors to St Stephen’s Green – The Irish Times

Curated news 06 Sep, 2021

Walking through a Dublin city I no longer recognise

The things that made life possible in my 20s have been gentrified out of existence Source: Walking through a Dublin city I no longer recognise

Sound walk SWS24
2024

Sky Walkers

Sky Walkers, 2024. Sonic, ambient artwork. Six prose poetic meditations on sites on the Dublin Mountains familiar with many walkers. Commissioned by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council (Ireland). Available to listen anywhere.

Sound walk SWS23
2023

London Open Form Pavilion of Air

A floating roof of sound in London, GPS-triggered & accessed by headphones & Echoes app to playfully reframe public space as an essential community engagement. One of 15 in an international series drawing on Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s Open Form concept.

Sound walk SWS23
2023

Dublin Open Form Pavilion of Air / Baile Átha Cliath Pailliún Aeir i bhFoirm Oscailte

A floating roof of sound in Dublin, GPS-triggered & accessed by headphones & Echoes app to playfully reframe public space as an essential community engagement. One of 15 in an international series drawing on Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s Open Form concept.

Sound walk SWS22
2021

Sounding Belfast During COVID-19 (Lockdowns)

This project reflects through an auditory and sonic art perspective how the city sounds like without the presence of humans or the normal amount of human density in popular areas in public spaces of Belfast.

Curated news 10 Jun, 2021

A City + A Garden: Stories and soundtracks combine for walks in Cork and Dublin

Source: A City + A Garden: Stories and soundtracks combine for walks in Cork and Dublin

Curated news 20 Feb, 2020

Dublin People – Northsiders step up to the plate for Walking Football Festival 2020

FINGAL County Council, in partnership with the FAI, hosted its first Walking Football Festival of 2020 in the new state of the art pitch at the National Sports Campus Indoor Arena in Abbottstown. Source: Dublin People – Northsiders step up to the plate for Walking Football Festival 2020

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Ireland’s Pilgrim Paths & Celtic Caminos Walking through History

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Tough Soles Summer Hikes Series Events Calendar 2026

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The Vandeleur-Lynams Project Film Tour

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The Miner’s Way Wicklow Day Hikes

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Ellie Berry
Tough Soles Blog

GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

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