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I AM A HUMAN SEISMOGRAPH - Participants' Walking Drawings

WAC25: Walking Home / Walking in Transition

30 Jun - 6 Jul, 2025 · 35 items

Deliberate

Collection · 1 items

Psarades

Collection · 3 items

visual arts

Collection · 10 items

Walkshop

Collection · 71 items

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Sounding Art Trail – sound walk walkshop

On Friday 20 March, we invite you to join us for a free sound walk walkshop starting at Otford railway station (TN14 5QY)at 11.00am, just metres from the UK's North Downs Way. You will be joined by artists and fellow participants to explore walking as a creative tool using guided listening, collective movement, and reflective exercises to engage with the soundscape of the trail. Rather than producing sound about place, the workshop emphasises producing sound with place, through embodied and shared experience.

Andrew Stuck
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Nothing less than stardust

With FROM DUST TO STARDUST, Ienke Kastelein, Beatrice Khoumeri, and Peter Schreuder created a a sensorial walk in deep time, at this year's Walking Art and Relational Geographies Conference in Catalunya.

Ienke Kastelein Beatrice Khoumeri +1
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Belonging & Letting Go: Freedom Morning Running Club

Free Steps between Walls and Hills is a 22 km walk from Guimarães to Citânia de Briteiros, proposed by AVE and The Walking Body. Through collective walking, participants explore the territory as a relational landscape of body, memory, and environment

Anne Lethelä Miguel Bandeira Duarte
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Sounds from the Chase and Chalke – a “how to make a soundwalk ” workshop

A “How to make a sound walk” workshop Ever wondered what everyone walking around wearing head phones are actually listening to?  Want merely to be a consumer or rather a creator of great listening experiences that people can enjoy outdoors? Join this exciting on-line workshop to learn how to make immersive sound walks and record

Andrew Stuck Marcin Barski

Deliberate

Collection · 1 items

Psarades

Collection · 3 items

visual arts

Collection · 10 items

Walkshop

Collection · 71 items

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walkingevent

Sounding Art Trail – sound walk walkshop

On Friday 20 March, we invite you to join us for a free sound walk walkshop starting at Otford railway station (TN14 5QY)at 11.00am, just metres from the UK's North Downs Way. You will be joined by artists and fellow participants to explore walking as a creative tool using guided listening, collective movement, and reflective exercises to engage with the soundscape of the trail. Rather than producing sound about place, the workshop emphasises producing sound with place, through embodied and shared experience.

Andrew Stuck
post

Nothing less than stardust

With FROM DUST TO STARDUST, Ienke Kastelein, Beatrice Khoumeri, and Peter Schreuder created a a sensorial walk in deep time, at this year's Walking Art and Relational Geographies Conference in Catalunya.

Ienke Kastelein Beatrice Khoumeri +1
walkingevent

Belonging & Letting Go: Freedom Morning Running Club

Free Steps between Walls and Hills is a 22 km walk from Guimarães to Citânia de Briteiros, proposed by AVE and The Walking Body. Through collective walking, participants explore the territory as a relational landscape of body, memory, and environment

Anne Lethelä Miguel Bandeira Duarte
walkingevent

Sounds from the Chase and Chalke – a “how to make a soundwalk ” workshop

A “How to make a sound walk” workshop Ever wondered what everyone walking around wearing head phones are actually listening to?  Want merely to be a consumer or rather a creator of great listening experiences that people can enjoy outdoors? Join this exciting on-line workshop to learn how to make immersive sound walks and record

Andrew Stuck Marcin Barski
Walking piece
Presented at WAC 25, I AM A HUMAN SEISMOGRAPH encouraged Walkshop participants to develop their own codes and systems to generate walking drawings that document and celebrate sensorial attentiveness and presence in the world.

I AM A HUMAN SEISMOGRAPH: a two-hour Walkshop presented at Walking Arts Encounters/Conference 2025 by Melinda Hunt

Focussing on the idea that walking and drawing fosters healing, my Walkshop challenged participants to set their own prompts or systems to make drawings while walking in the village of Psarades. As a seismograph responds to movements in the earth’s crust, the Walkshop’s 20 participants used an automatic approach to mark-making, responding to what was detected by all senses, often in combination with the body’s movement in space.
Afterwards, Walkshop participants gathered to share and compare the drawings and the systems each participant chose to generate them. Drawings were displayed, viewed, discussed and enjoyed. Participating in the Walkshop created an opportunity for participants – many of whom were not visual artists – to discover that being attuned to a deliberate interaction with the setting while walking and drawing is a means of experiencing the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Credits

The drawings photographed for this entry were produced by WAC25 I AM A HUMAN SEISMOGRAPH Walkshop participants.

APA style reference

Hunt, M. (2025). I AM A HUMAN SEISMOGRAPH. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/i-am-a-human-seismograph/

pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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