Epiphany in Motion: Walking and Learning
Epiphany is often understood as a moment of sudden revelation. Yet in its deeper sense, Epiphany is not instant clarity, but recognition that unfolds through movement. In the biblical narrative, understanding does not arrive at the point of departure; it emerges retrospectively — after walking, after detour, after attention and care. This understanding of Epiphany resonates strongly with contemporary walking practices that treat movement not as transit, but as a mode of knowing.
One early and prescient example is Peter d’Agostino’s World Wide Walks (1973–2021). At a time when digital space was still largely imagined as abstract and placeless, World Wide Walks grounded new media and networked technology in the simple, embodied act of walking — as a way of reconnecting with the Earth and responding, already then, to ecological change. Nearly five decades in later, this feels more relevant than ever.
The Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) online course builds on this lineage by proposing walking as a relational, ecological, commons-based and future making practice. Rather than transmitting expertise, the course invites participants to learn with places, communities, and more-than-human worlds.
This same ethos shapes The Walking Assembly 2026, whose open call launches later this week, in the heart of the Epiphany season.
Taking place along the Muga River in Catalonia, the Assembly — a continuation of the biennial conference Walking Arts and Relational Geographies — marks a deliberate shift: from conference to assembly, from presentation to movement, from teaching to dynamic knowledge. Participants are invited to walk together, with Tim Ingold, across a fluid landscape, allowing understanding to emerge through shared experience, attention, and care, from 9–13 May 2026.
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In a world where movement is increasingly tracked, optimised, and extracted, these practices insist on another possibility: walking as attention, walking as commons, walking as a way of staying with complexity rather than resolving it.
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Straight up from the track by the church
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