The walking practice can be acknowledged as an act of touching and listening to the diverse shapes and stories of a territory. The more you walk into a place, the more you become aware of its diverse geographies, characteristics and traits. The more you walk into a landscape, the more you recognize, absorb and understand its stories and narratives.
In summer 2025, for one entire week, walking became the defining activity in Prespa, a mountainous transboundary landscape where two ancient freshwater lakes traverse Greece, Albania, and North Macedonia. Through acts of healing, experiencing, resisting and becoming, WAC 25 explored walking as a multifaceted practice as part of the wider, four-year Creative Europe project “Walking
Stories of Place, Community and Environment (SPACE) Walk, facilitated by Kim V. Goldsmith, is an act of walking together with different knowledge holders and community change-makers to creatively explore the local landscape and consider future possibilities for farming, the environment, the community, and the wider region.
South of the River Thames the buildings are dense, and green spaces are in short supply. All the same, great rhomboids of park land dot the landscape on what was common land. At the time of the mid 1800’s expansion of London, local people campaigned and paid for the land to be set aside, and
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