This research project explores how walking is employed as a methodology in diverse performance art, design and education practices, investigating the embodied experience of walking through a range of worldviews. We focus on the creation of “wearable utopias” (Jungnickel et. al. 2024) and performance art as experiential embodiments of walking methodologies. We question - how can walking become a method of subversion, and of moving from individual to collective action?

Working on an interdisciplinary scale, we unpack the embodied experience of walking through a plurality of ontological and contextual frames, that look at the connection between the moving body and territory.

As Springgay and Truman (2019, 14) claim “walking is never neutral”, therefore in this project we situate walking practices in contemporary research and arts, interrogating their inheritances and ethico-political implications. Departing from this interrogation, we will explore individual-collective processes of walking, wandering, grounding, in-habitat positioning (Ingold 2000; 2013), and making, and how these are interconnected (Pasztory 2005; Escobar 2018; Bennett 2010). Therefore, the project moves forward fundamental research on walking methodologies and their transformative role in the contemporary context.