Walkspace is a West Midlands-based co-operative of artists, writers, psychogeographers, photographers, creative practitioners and walkers.
It was set up by three friends: Andy Howlett, Fiona Cullinan and Pete Ashton. Each have their own individual walking practices but joined together as a group after being inspired by ‘Walking’s New Movements‘ at the University of Plymouth: a 2019 conference to discuss the latest developments and future prospects for radical walking and walking arts.
What does Walkspace do?
Walkspace exists to bring together West Midlands-based artists and creative practitioners who use walking as part of their practice. We aim to create a community of mutual support and collaboration, working as a co-operative collective to support the creation of new work.
Our public events include walks, workshops, film nights, performances and exhibitions. We deliver community-based walking projects with partners including Creative Black Country, Flatpack Festival, the Wildlife Trust, Hipkiss & Graney, Voce Books and Historic Coventry. We’re always looking for new partners to help us forge connections between people and place through walking.
How do I join?
Membership of Walkspace is open to anyone based in the West Midlands with a creative practice involving walking. Members pay an annual subscription fee and get access to our WhatsApp community.
Who runs Walkspace?
Walkspace is run by a committee elected annually from the membership. The committee looks after the administration of Walkspace and keeps it focussed on the mission at hand.
Walks, events and projects are either run autonomously by members with Walkspace support, run by Walkspace as an entity involving members, or something inbetween.
What sort of walking do you cover?
This is not an exhaustive list of what we’re interested in by any means, but it should give you a taste.
- Non-normal walking
- Art walks
- Protest walks
- Social walks
- Community walks
- Group walks
- Solo walks
- Walking for mental health
- Micro adventures
- Walks about ageing
- Walks exploring pain
- Guided walks
- Unguided walks
- Scored walks
- Gamified walks
- Interactive walks
- Uninteractive walks
- Walks and talks
- Stirchley walks
- Psychogeography
- Mythogeography
- Geography
- Shadow walks
- Video walks
- Documenting walks
- Explorations
- Mystery walks
- Dementia walks
- Walking to combat loneliness
- Themed walks
- Therapeutic walks
- Nature-based walks
- Sunrise walks
- Sunset walks
- Pagan walks
- Monotheistic walks
- Slow walking
- Fast walking
- Neither slow nor fast walking
- Camera walks
- Data capture walks
- Walks which follow the invisible infrastructure of the internet
- Weird maps
- Deep Topography
- Counter Tourism
- Guerrilla Heritage
- Micro odysseys
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