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19 Jan, 2025

Walking art is a wonderfully inclusive and diverse form of creativity. It encompasses myriad ways of exploring and connecting to the world around us. It’s not just about the walk itself but about how interaction with place, community and the environment can create something new and engaging. This week, a 16-year-old student from London called Jai made the news for gaining over 400,000 views on TikTok for his unique walking challenge.

Jai turned his passion for London’s public transport into a video-walking project, tracing the path of the city’s Tube lines above ground on foot. Starting with the Victoria line last year, Jai has now walked six of the 11 Underground lines, including the Waterloo & City and Bakerloo lines, capturing each route with TikTok videos. His favourite journey so far? The Hammersmith & City line, which took him nearly 8 hours to complete and led him to explore Shepherd’s Bush at night.

Jai’s journey is far from over. He’s also considering extending his project to bus routes. His message is clear: walking art is for everyone, and it can connect you to your surroundings and others in new and surprising ways. We can’t wait to see where Jai’s creativity takes him next, and we hope his passion for walking lasts, even if TikTok doesn’t!   

walk · listen · create is all about celebrating and supporting walking artists. That’s why our Sound Walk September Awards (SWS24) exist—to showcase the most creative and innovative sound walking projects. This week, we're excited to announce the winners of SWS24: Os Andares (The Walks), with an Honourable Mention to Brompton Cemetery Sound & Stories: The Living and Tender Flesh, Laura Khan Mitchison, in co-production and with sound design by Steve Urquhart. Read more about the winners and their inspiring work here.

And don't forget our WALC Confluence this week (Jan 22) hosted by WALC partner Nau Côclea with special guest Ernesto Pujol, social choreographer, author  and educator, discussing how he documents his walking art.
We hope they inspire you to keep walking creatively!

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A kind of attitudinal or intentional walk in which one chooses a zig-zag pathway, choosing a feature in the environment to walk towards and changing chosen feature and direction at will. A way to subvert prescribed directionality, and view, of built urban pathways.

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