Walking Arts and Local Communities: An online course for walking and creating together

Online event dates: Starting March 7, 2026 | 15 online sessions
Who is it for: artists, educators, cultural workers, researchers, and community practitioners 

Read more and join the course here

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About the course

Walking Arts & Local Communities is a free online course inviting artists, educators, cultural workers, researchers, and community practitioners to explore walking as an artistic practice, a research method, and a tool for collective and ecological engagement.

This course is rooted in place, movement, and shared experience. It brings together walking arts, participation, and digital practices to open new ways of creating, learning, and relating, locally and across borders.

This is not about learning about walking.
It is about walking as a form of learning, inquiry, and co-creation.

Discover how walking can become a method for storytelling, mapping, participation, and social and ecological engagement. Through embodied and place-based practices, you will explore new ways of relating to landscapes, communities, and the more-than-human.

The course brings together internationally recognised walking artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners working across walking arts, participatory practices, locative media, and community-based art.

Become part of a vibrant network of participants from Europe and beyond. Through shared exercises, discussions, and collaborative projects, you will walk together — exchanging knowledge, practices, and perspectives.

Participants gain access to curated learning modules, audiovisual materials, and a dedicated digital platform that supports experimentation, peer exchange, and long-term engagement beyond the course.

- Walking as research & practice

Learn how sound walks, participatory mapping, storytelling, and embodied movement can be used as artistic and research tools, to question, reimagine, and transform relationships with place and community.

Ground your work in local knowledge and community contexts while engaging with trans-European and global conversations on walking arts, ecology, and future-making.

Work within co-creative formats, share your practice with others, and contribute to a living archive of walking arts, commons-based knowledge, and collective processes.

Explore how walking extends into digital space. Experiment with hybrid and site-specific formats using online platforms, collaborative tools, and locative media.

This course is open to artists, cultural professionals, educators, community and environmental practitioners, curators, researchers, students, and anyone curious about walking as an experimental, relational, and socially engaged practice.

Read more and join WALC's online course here.

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