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Walking and gender (WALC Online Course Session 5)

WALC Online Course — Session 5: Walking and Gender (April 18, 2026, 9h30 CEST) explores walking, bodies, care, and power through contributions by Katerina Pistola (Who Is This Space For? Walking, Bodies, and Power), Federica Rocchi / Colletivo Amigdala (How Much Space Do You Occupy?), the participatory Tracing Care walking practice (A Walking Exploration of Our Environments), and Discover walk · listen · create with Babak Fakhamzadeh.

Second session of the block “Walking as shared World Making” as part of the online course “Walking Arts and Local Communities” in the frame of the Creative Europe Cooperation project WALC: “Walking and gender.”
Coordinators: Fred Adam and Geert Vermeire.

WALC ONLINE COURSE

BLOCK WALKING AS SHARED WORLD MAKING

Walking and gender
Who Is This Space For?
Walking, Bodies, and Power
with Katerina Pistola

How much space do you occupy?
with Federica Rocchi, Collettivo Amigdala (Italy)

“Tracing Care” practice
A Walking Exploration of Our Environments

Discover walk · listen · create
with Babak Fakhamzadeh

Supported by

Locative Media Supercluster

Locative Media Supercluster links art, ecology & education with CGeomap and Earth Art Revolution, mapping human & more-than-human stories.
Fred AdamGeert Vermeire

Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) is an artistic cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union, Creative Europe, starting in January 2024 for four years. With seven partners from five countries, WALC establishes an International Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Arts, in Prespa, Greece, at the border with Albania and North Macedonia, backed up by an online counterpart in the format of a digital platform for walking arts.

WALC builds on the previous work of hundreds of artists and researchers already practicing Walking Arts as a collaborative medium, and having met at the significant previous walking arts events and encounters in Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, and during online activities at walk · listen · create.

We acknowledge the support of the EU Creative Europe Cooperation grant program in the framework of the European project WALC (Walking Arts and Local Community).

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

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