The Walking Encyclopaedia - DAY SIX - more walking categories

 

More category suggestions from WAN members - a sense of individual approach is really starting to emerge.

WALKING CATEGORIES

FROM ANNA FRANCIS
Research
Investigation
Tour
Performance
Conversation piece

FROM KRIS DERBY

Edges
Water
Gender
Environmentalism
Pilgrimage
Labyrinths
Flaneur/Flaneuse
Audio
Film
Intimate
Countertourism
GPS
Autotopography
Trek

FROM ALEXANDER CHAMPION

Circumambulation

Slow-walk

Walking for health

FROM BRAM ARNOLD

Transecting.
-The act of treating a walk like an ecological transect.
Conversational.
-Purposeful stepping out with one other person, using the walk as a
landscape for the imagination.
Editorial.
-Using a footpath as a way of interpreting a text, through reading it into
a place.
Memorial.
-A walk in contemplation of a significant life event, the mind only works
at 3 miles an hour, giving it time and space to cope with grief, loss.

FROM TRACY KEMMETT

Spiritual connection
inspiration
making  myth
conversations
whimsy

FROM PHILIPPE GUILLAUME

Peripatetic Photography
Relational Ambulation and Wayfinding Walking, 

Strangers and Chance Interaction

FROM AIRSPACE GALLERY
performance

mapping 

psychogeography

exploration

drift/derive

FROM ERIC STEEN

Education

Social Engagement

Discovery

FROM WALTER SIEGFRIED

enhanced perception

FROM KATJA MUENKER

performance

performance installation

walk

hike

experience

intervention

FROM KELLY RANKIN

wanderlust

contemplation

meditation

FROM CHRISTOPHER MOLLON

Liminal

Durational

Ephemeral 

Action

Intertidal

Rural

(Urban)

Site-specific

Site-responsive

FROM STEPH BRADLEY

Pilgrimage

Social Commentary (Collecting & Sharing Stories/News)

Oral History ( Storytelling/Troubadour/Minstrel)

Community Building

Reconnection ( to place, self, other, nature, spirit, soul)

FROM TRAVIS SOUZA

Psychogeography

Education/Research

Politics

Drawing