2/52 < Train ticket receipt with pasted on text. The text reads: 'a profoundly social activity', going for a walk with collaborators at a distance, body-to-body solitary dérive the artist is no longer in town correspondence between a work of art, ...
Today's featured walking piece
Pentrich Rising
To mark the bicentenary of the ill-fated Pentrich revolt sound artist Andrew Brown composed three soundwalks, each a creative response to the events of June 1817. Fellow artists collaborating on the project include Leigh Toro, Agnes Williams, Benedik Williams, Alasdair Thurston-Ambrose and Harry Freestone.
Curated news
[AR]T Walk: Augmented Realities - Apple
05 December
Interartive 100: Walking Art / Walking Aesthetics | Interartive | Contemporary Art + Thought
05 December
Asphalt Art | Bloomberg Philanthropies
03 December
Simplified “Focused Research” | Diigo
02 December
Decembers First Sunday
Greetings dear friends and fellow loiterers First Sunday This Sunday and we will be gathering for our last wander of the year. The location has been chosen by request, we also explored the area at night last month and we will be marking change in our own curious way. Please join us this Sunday, December 1st, starting 2pm in Cutting Room Square Ancoats. For those who wish to join us for the first time or just fancy a refresher here's some useful info. Our walks are alwa...
Safer Speeds to Walk to School – Living Streets Aotearoa strongly endorses the Government’s commitment
Safer Speeds to Walk to School 27th November 2019 Living Streets Aotearoa strongly endorses the Government’s commitment to improve safety for students walking to school through today’s announcement about lowering speeds around schools.“Walking is a hea...
Safe Harbours and Energy Zones – a wander around ‘The Path’.
a tidal log book: salt, moon, sun, wind ≈ I – Kirkcaldy Harbour To think of the journeys that have started and ended here. Safe harbour: a place of refuge or shelter. Arrivals and departures, crossing borders. Time measured in tidal flows. A … Continue reading →
Listening and walking in Ljubljana: Št 2: “brez sledi”
An invitation to exhibit at Steklenik (http://www.steklenik.si/en/home/) resulted in a mid-November trip to Ljubljana. Steklenik, a partnership project of the Cona Institute (run by Brane Zorman and Irena Pivka; http://www.cona.si) and the University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana, is a sound gallery … Continue reading →
Making The Timekeeper’s Return: Testing
___________________________________One year ago this autumn, I reached the culmination of an overwhelming three months of creative work and collaboration when I designed, wrote and directed The Timekeeper’s Return, a story-based immersive treasure hunt...
52 Scores – 1/52
1/52 First walked 24 November 2019 by Blake Morris in Abington Park, Northampton.
52 Scores
52 Scores (2019-2020) So much scrap. On my bookshelf sits a pile of scrap paper: mailers, print-outs of old drafts, REF guidance documents and outdated cases studies. I decided to put it all to good use. Every day I am picking a piece of scrap p...
Walking Meetings: How to Have One
Are you interested in trying walking meetings? Take a look at this infographic about why you’d want to. In short, it’s worth leaving the comfort of the office to take a working wander so that you can have better ideas, build relationships, relieve stress, exercise and connect with the environment. A walking meeting is a little … Walking Meetings: How to Have OneRead More »
Walking Meetings: What Are They Good For?
The walking meeting is very fashionable at the moment. However, offices now have so much to offer. They can be beautiful spaces with lots of light, cool furniture and even free refreshments. So, why would we leave this comfortable space to go out and battle with the elements? Here are the main reasons that it … Walking Meetings: What Are They Good For?Read More »
A letter to all elected local government representatives.
Congratulations on your election! Local Government is very important in shaping our local environment for decades to come. You can help or hurt walking by your decisions. Let’s make your place better for walking! We are all walkers, from ages 1 to 111....
eScooters not welcome on our footpaths
We have a policy on those eScooters. They are not welcome on NZ footpaths, they put people off walking due to the speed of these machines. We welcome them in cycle lanes and low speed roads.See our policy here.There are more types of these vehicles l...
Morning song
Sunday morning. The starling is doing its daily broadcast from the neighbour's antenna. Old tunes and new ones. We are listening.
always the sea
Deriving Paris: breaking through the barricades with a guy named Guy – Australian Times
Deriving Paris: breaking through the barricades with a guy named Guy Australian Times
Commons / Mountain View
Uncommon and 4.7 km drawing. Pine and 1.6 km drawing.
Presenting “Paths lead to Landscapes” in Munich
Börries von Detten and I presented our study on paths trough Munich´s Green belt (November 13, Munich) and discussed our findings with experts from the region. One conclusion was that working co-creatively on the green spaces between the municipalities is key to qualifying quality of life in the city region. A resilient network of […]
General Election 2019: Red and Green and Blue.
The roots of Socialism’s environmentalism go way back: Thomas Spence, for example, who thought enclosure and what we call now call factory farming should be replaced by ‘People’s Farms’. John Thelwall - ‘that Jacobin fox’, ‘the most dangerous man in B...
What have Historians enchanted by Roman Britain ever bequeathed to us?
What have historians enchanted by the study of Romano-British history ever bequeathed to us? And why have they been enchanted? I suppose it could be the Stockholm Syndrome, The affection felt by the captive for the captor sort of thing, Or perhaps...
HIgh level
Becoming Visible and 4.9 km drawing.