We arrive in Emmadorp and walk towards the imposing long dike that embraces the Verdronken Land van Saeftinghe like an ancient boundary. Once we reach the top, near Emmahaven, a panorama unfolds that truly reveals the immense scale of this tidal landscape. The horizon seems endless. In the distance, we see a group of walkers

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

A 690-meter street art installation has opened inside Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, turning a construction area in a transit corridor into a continuous mural that organizers describe as the longest ever created in the Netherlands.The project, called “Time Lines,” was launched during ongoing renovation work in the airport’s transit space. It is a collaboration between experiential

To celebrate this significant milestone, our writer follows the flow of the artist’s inspiration, taking in sights that would have been familiar to the Old Master Source: Rembrandt’s Amsterdam – walking the Amstel River 750 years after the city’s birth | Amsterdam holidays | The Guardian

Back in 2018, I visited the lovely town of Olinda in northern Brazil. It's popular with tourists, mostly Brazilian, and when my wife and I were admiring the town's facades, a man walked from around the corner and started talking to us, assuming we were Brazilian tourists. He was a tour guide and wanted to sell his services, and one of the very first things he said was "Oh, if only the Dutch had stayed, Brazil would be so much better off, today".

“Walking through clouds” in The Hague, or admiring daily objects elevated to artworks: shows in the Netherlands to enjoy before summer ends. Source: Art, “walking through clouds” to look at the world from above – ilSole24ORE

A new hiking route in the far north of the country is helping to connect visitors with rural communities and giving churches a new lease of life as B&Bs and art studios Source: Walking the Netherlands’ new long-distance Salt Path | Netherlands holidays | The Guardian

As part of the release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (pre-orders now open for softcover shipping in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My 25th interview in this […]

Art in Rotterdam during the Second World War: exhibition, book and walking map. Source: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents Art Amid the Ruins | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Newsroom

No need for tourists to bring ropes on this seven-peak hike in the Low Countries Source: ‘It definitely isn’t flat’: Netherlands mountain trail proves an unlikely success | Netherlands | The Guardian

“We asked ourselves — if we could move 1,200 trees through a city center for over 100 days, then imagine what else we could do,” said Bruno Doedens, a Dutch landscape architect an… Source: A Moveable Forest in the Netherlands – THE DIRT

We invite you to join us on a walk through the newsroom of a regional newspaper, Dagblad van het Noorden. We trace how the journalists perceive, articulate, engage, embrace, challenge, are receptive to, and give form to the ‘atmospheres’ of their workspace. The concept of atmospheres is central in how we have looked at the

Source: 1,200 walking trees take over central Leeuwarden – DutchNews.nl

Jan drew (and wrote) The Soft Atlas of Amsterdam: Hand Drawn Perspectives from Daily Life (2014) – as interviewer Jacob Wallett describes “is a sensitive, playful and detailed account of daily life as encountered in a number of places around the city. The book includes maps of districts, streets, bedrooms, even the air traffic control

The Dutch city puts the focus on pedestrians with a new “walking agenda” Source: Tilburg adopts a walking mindset | TheMayor.EU

At last year's Sound Walk September, the majority of submissions came from Europe. But, not all. Yonatan Collier received an honourable mention for his work Taman Tugu: Interference/Resistance, set in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Here's Yonatan, discussing his work.

It was the first day that was longer than the night. Yesterday it counted 11 hours, 59 minutes and 12 seconds. Today the sun rose at 6.58 and set at 19.00. I watched it appear. Then read Rebecca Solnit. “I am, we each are, the inmost of an endless seri...

“Some people would rather have wings but we don’t, we have feet. We were born to walk. Scientists say that walking gave us our brain capacity, walking turned us into the human beings we are. Walking made it possible for us to have the desire to fly and...

I don’t know why I hadn’t seen it before. Or maybe I had but I had failed to recognise it. My first thought was that is was new, although I couldn’t imagine it was. And the bronze placque in the street told me it had been here even before I visited the...

An old story. Because the world is in turmoil, is always in turmoil and inbetween all the sad things that are happening everywhere it is important to remember that there are just as many, or maybe even more, beautiful things happening. Often it is i...