Walk 1000 Miles is a community-oriented website that promotes walking culture and physical activity through a structured challenge. The platform allows participants to record their walks and collectively track progress toward the milestone of 1,000 miles, fostering motivation and a sense of shared achievement. The site includes resources such as walking routes, tips for walkers, and a supportive environment that encourages consistent engagement with walking as a daily physical activity. The initiative behind Walk 1000 Miles integrates elements of cultural geography by encouraging exploration of local environments, pathways, and landscapes through walking. The collective aspect not only emphasizes personal health benefits but also cultivates community interaction and an appreciation of diverse walking terrains across various regions. The program is designed to be accessible, promoting walking as an inclusive activity that can contribute to both individual wellness and broader social connectivity.

OVERHEAR is a platform for geolocated audio projects based out of the West Midlands, UK. Launched in 2019 it has evolved to host a number of projects in the UK as well as a system for in-app recordings for walkers to leave public and private recordings where ever they travel. Other features include project submissions where walkers can add recordings to existing pins, responses where listeners can audio comment on existing recordings. The app hopes to also release Wanders and Postbox features soon. Wanders are pieces of audio pseudo-randomly placed near listeners for daily exploration and Postbox is a personal audio messaging service that sends audio to a user specific location. Get in touch at hello@theoverhear.app

The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research and education organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the surface of the earth, and in finding new meanings in the intentional and incidental forms that we individually and collectively create.

Placecloud is a location-based storytelling platform that connects short, place-specific audio stories to precise geographic viewpoints. Using a mobile device and map interface, listeners can discover recordings tied to particular locations and hear them while standing at or looking toward the place being described. Each recording typically highlights a fragment of history, an overlooked anecdote, or a curious detail about the surrounding environment, turning ordinary viewpoints into entry points for exploring the layered narratives of a city or landscape. The platform emphasizes concise, well-researched micro-histories that enrich a visitor’s experience of place without requiring a full guided tour. Contributors can create new viewpoints by recording short narrations linked to specific coordinates and directions, allowing a distributed network of storytellers to expand the collection over time. Through this approach, Placecloud builds a growing archive of geographically anchored stories that encourage people to slow down, observe their surroundings, and encounter places through unexpected historical and cultural perspectives.

Our blog on how to write and create narrative based audio walks.

Our website where you can find out about the Storydive app and our audio walks.

Urban sounds to go produces walk along radio plays in the city of Berlin. The walks play with facts and fiction they weave site specific music whith historical original sounds.

About sound walks.

From Myall Creek memorial to Nimbin, counter culture capital of Australia: Immersive locative audio walks from top Australia producers

The Soundmarker collective has been working on site-specific audio work such as audio walks, audio guides and soundwalks since 2011. We see ourselves as a laboratory in which theory and practice flow together, and develop projects that also include our exercises, experiments and research. We publish our experiences in texts.

Some Call Us Balkans is a digital platform dedicated to exploring the cultural, historical, and social complexities of the Balkans region through various media forms including storytelling, essays, photography, and interviews. The website addresses themes such as identity, migration, memory, and the post-conflict realities that shape contemporary life in the region. It situates the Balkans within broader geopolitical and cultural frameworks while foregrounding local voices and experiences that challenge monolithic or stereotypical narratives about the area. The content on the site reflects a multidisciplinary approach, drawing from history, anthropology, literature, and art to provide nuanced perspectives on the Balkans. Frequent contributions come from academics, artists, journalists, and local inhabitants, highlighting the diversity of thought and lived realities within the region. This approach encourages critical engagement with the Balkans, emphasizing both its contested legacies and ongoing transformations in a globalized context.

SLQ Studio is a digital platform dedicated to documenting and exploring Queensland’s cultural heritage through a combination of archival materials, oral histories, and visual arts. It serves as a repository and creative space that highlights the diversity of Queensland’s communities, focusing on stories and artworks that reflect the region's social and historical landscapes. The studio emphasizes community engagement, featuring collaborations with local artists, historians, and cultural organizations to preserve and present multifaceted narratives. The website showcases various projects that intersect art, history, and place, often employing multimedia elements such as video interviews, photographic collections, and interactive exhibitions. By prioritizing place-based storytelling, SLQ Studio contributes to a deeper understanding of Queensland’s cultural geography, illuminating how local identities and environments have been shaped and expressed over time. This platform positions itself as a resource for researchers, educators, and the public interested in the arts and cultural histories of Queensland.

SATSYMPH is located audio designer, poet and writer Ralph Hoyte, coder, composer and audio engineer Phill Phelps, composer and visual artist Marc Yeats. We have a common interest in composing interactive, spatialised soundart and dramatised heritage scenarios accessed through the smartphone either in real-world physical environments, or ‘in armchair mode’.

Home of the ojoVoz platform, an open source tool for the collaborative creation of community memories

Imprintable.org is an online platform dedicated to the study and documentation of walking as a practice intersecting with art and cultural geography. The site features a diverse collection of projects, essays, maps, and multimedia that explore walking’s role in shaping spatial experience, memory, and identity. It serves as an archival and research resource that highlights interdisciplinary approaches to understanding walking beyond its utilitarian function, focusing on its cultural, environmental, and artistic dimensions. The platform also includes critical reflections on walking as a form of social and political engagement, examining how pedestrian movement interacts with urban landscapes, public spaces, and social histories. Imprintable.org engages contributors from multiple fields, including artists, geographers, anthropologists, and historians, to provide a nuanced understanding of walking's imprint on cultural and geographical practices.

Hiiker is a platform for long-distance hiking trails around the world.

Guidemate is a platform for audio walks. Here you find audio guides for sight seeing, artistic audio walks and educational tours created by schools or universities. Choose from over 250 guides in 15 countries. Or create your own audio walk!

With Storydive we give you easy and intuitive access to audio walks in your area. Audio walks are audio stories that you can immerse yourself in during a walk on site. They let you experience stories with all your senses and show you the city like you've never seen it before. Storydive is a platform on which you can find very different audio walks by authors from different cities. View audio walks in your area, subscribe to locations, and mark out walks that are of particular interest to you.

A mobile application dedicated to sound-enhanced exploration of public space. GOH uses geolocation to locate creations directly in the places that inspired them.

Gesso is an online platform dedicated to the art of walking, offering tools and resources for creating, sharing, and experiencing walking-based art projects. It provides a digital environment where users can document and map their walking routes, integrating multimedia elements such as images, text, and audio to craft narrative or artistic experiences grounded in specific geographic contexts. The platform supports both individual and collaborative projects, emphasizing the intersection of movement, place, and creative expression. The site also serves as an archive and exhibition space for walking art, showcasing diverse contributions that highlight different cultural and environmental perspectives. By facilitating the layering of personal and collective memories onto landscapes, Gesso engages with contemporary practices of psychogeography and spatial storytelling, reflecting a growing interest in how walking can function as a mode of artistic exploration and cultural geography.