WalkingLab

08/21/2023

https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/research-drama-education-journal-applied-theatre/?utm_source=TFO&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JPG15743&fbclid=IwAR2zrAroNpFJg2yoIGwG17xOkjCK9dcfwYd0lSLcqr7E5vikZVct7DRV-Iw_aem_AcOH0dSkPhIgS5gQguNftNC6QJot7nJIYQo2urv6lUv_6Wg8tZTc6QRvxdVpgaTYgbE

This special issue aims to highlight walking as a methodology, pedagogy and performance of critical applied practice.

07/05/2022

I will be keynoting via walking in Amsterdam in the fall, along with Annemarie Mol. The CFP is open until July 15th if you would like to propose something. Walking-with Amsterdam WARP Conference | 29-30 September 2022.

The WARP conference aims to stimulate a rich transdisciplinary dialogue about how, why, when, and with what results, walking practices are being explored and engaged with in the social sciences, humanities, and the arts.

05/03/2022

Sharing from Dee Heddon on the amazing gathering and online portal. WalkingLab wishes they could be there!!

Gathering 18/19 May

We are pleased to share news of the final event of our research project, “Walking Publics/Walking Arts: walking, wellbeing and community during Covid-19”.

Over the past 16 months, our project has explored how creative walking activities have been and could be used to mitigate social isolation and anxiety, maintain health and wellbeing, enhance social connectivity, and facilitate cultural empowerment. We have investigated
the walking experiences and creative interventions of people during COVID-19 restrictions. ​
the ‘lockdown’ work of artists using walking activity within conditions of restriction.
the potential of the arts to sustain, encourage and more equitably support walking during and recovering from a pandemic. ​

At our Gathering, a 2-day event in London and Online on the 18 & 19 May 2022, we share and celebrate the use of creative walking to enhance wellbeing.

We will
host a series of ‘walkshops’ and presentations led by artists & Associate Partners
hear from commissioned artists about their making new walking work made with & for specific communities, including people with dementia and in end-of-life care
share our research findings on walking and creativity during COVID-19
launch our Project Report on people’s experiences of walking during the pandemic
launch and demonstrate The Walkbook, a free resource to support creative walking and wellbeing

The Gathering is free and takes place in person in central London on 18 May, and in a hybrid format on 19 May (East London/online). A free vegan lunch and refreshments will be on offer as well as free print copies of our project report ‘ : understanding walking and creativity during COVID-19′ and The Walkbook: Recipes for walking and wellbeing.

You can see the full programme, access information and speaker bios at https://walkcreate.gla.ac.uk/walkcreate-gathering-full-programme/ #

You can book a place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walkcreate-gathering-tickets-316844920687

Please do share this event with anyone who might be interested.

With best wishes

The WalkCreate Team

www.walkcreate.org

Walking Publics / Walking Arts walking, wellbeing and community during COVID-19 Gallery Online Launch – Wednesday 3 November 2021 Gallery Project News Project Blog

09/07/2021

WalkingLab's guest edited SI for Qualitative Inquiry on Critical Walking Methodologies and Place has some articles out 'online first.' Here's the editorial. More articles from the issue should be released online first in the coming weeks 😍:

In this Editorial, we discuss WalkingLab’s approach to critical walking methodologies grounded in queer-feminist, anti-racist praxis, and argue for the need to ...

05/18/2021

Reminder of the Scores for Walking Research-Creation project. Deadline soon. Request your score if you have not done so already, and remember to send us back your walking projects.

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04/08/2021

If you haven't already checked out WalkingLabs podcasts and postcard project now is the time!!

All content ©2021 WalkingLab. Designed and maintained by Sarah E. Truman. The images contained on this website have undergone Institutional Ethics Review. They cannot be downloaded or used without written permission from Dr. Stephanie Springgay. Header image: Peak District May 2010, “white is not...

03/01/2021

Call for Participation to collaborate on WalkingLab's latest research-creation project. We want to walk-with you, and want to send you something in the mail as a prompt in the form of a postcard score. If you would like to receive a postcard score, you can find details on the website:

All content ©2021 WalkingLab. Designed and maintained by Sarah E. Truman. The images contained on this website have undergone Institutional Ethics Review. They cannot be downloaded or used without written permission from Dr. Stephanie Springgay. Header image: Peak District May 2010, “white is not...

08/20/2020

Live now on Youtube

04/16/2020

The Walking Library for Forest Walks Join us in creating a walking library The Walking Library is a library that carries books by foot. It brings together people, books, walking and landscapes. Launched in 2012 by artists Dee Heddon & Misha Myers and supported by the University of Glasgow, each Walk...

01/14/2020

WalkingLab is co-sponsoring a sound walk this Friday, January 17th from 1:00-1:45pm in Toronto. We will be meeting at the Jackman Humanities building (lobby), 160 St. George St.

09/13/2019

Collaborative walking tour for art, activism and inquiry in Toronto’s financial district - October 5th, 2019, 1-5pm. Organized by Walkinglab and ReImagining Value Action Lab with the support of the Toronto Biennial of Art.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-bank-the-mine-the-colony-the-crime-a-collaborative-walking-tour-tickets-72465453121

An itinerant gathering including performances, talks and interventions by individuals and collectives including:

Alvis Choi
Vanessa Gray
ICE, Eva-Lynn Jagoe and Imre Szeman
Zannah Madson and Christopher Alton
Jamie Magnusson
New Mineral Collective
The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network
Sherry Ostopovich and Anita Castelino
Christopher Smith

We will assemble at the RBC Plaza at 200 Bay St at 12:45pm.

Toronto’s financial district, built on stolen Haudenosaunee and Mississauga lands, is home to many ghosts, notably those dispossessed by the global extractive industry headquartered on the city’s infamous Bay Street. The violence of (neo)colonialism haunts the corporate towers and cleansed streets of the financial district; it also haunts the pensions and savings of millions of Canadians who, knowingly or not, are invested in the industry via the neighbourhood’s preeminent financial institutions.
This glass, metal and concrete zone is a reactor of the imagination, where the abstract codes of global finance fuse with the settler colonial logics of racialized extraction and neoliberal capitalism. But what else might the imagination generate if we assembled ourselves otherwise? What resilient pasts, rebellious presents and radical futures flow beneath the surface, ready to erupt? How can we imagine and enact the complex solidarities we need to overturn the financialized global order of deadly inequalities and the fascistic spectres it unleashes?