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Street Wisdom is the brainchild of David Pearl, an innovator in business, the arts and social change. Having spent years exploring how our urban environment can deliver fresh insight, in 2013 he set up the first Street Wisdom event in Covent Garden, London. Since then, the movement has grown to over 87 countries and counting, led by volunteers sharing the power of Street Wisdom free of charge through communities across the globe. We’re on a mission to bring inspiration to every street on the planet!

Every year we celebrate Street Wisdom by wandering together on one day across the globe, we call it The World Wide Wander – an international coalition of the creative, curious and courageously kind-hearted.

It’s a day to imagine better futures for us, our communities and our planet. Together.

You can join us at an in-person Walkshop or one of our online sessions running throughout the day.

Come and join our festival of future seekers!

GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

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