This article first appeared in Anima Loci. Unfolding through the city of Guimarães, Portugal, The Walking Body is an artistic research programme that explores collective walking as a methodology for situated knowledge, creative inquiry and engagement with place. Taking place across three consecutive editions (2024–2026), the programme has generated a range of artistic outputs: from drawings to

Made of Walking Prosperpolder and the Future of Walking Arts TThe expression walking arts has become surprisingly familiar. Over the past two decades, it has entered conferences, publications, festivals, university programmes and European projects, bringing together practices that had previously remained dispersed across different artistic and disciplinary traditions.Yet the more familiar the expression has become,