Independent artists/researchers/students: £25 Delegates have a choice of several cafes and sandwich shops close to the university venue to buy their own lunches. The registration fee will cover arrival drinks, light refreshments, and the buffet at the social event on Saturday night. In order to be as inclusive as we can, we have attempted to keep costs as low as possible. Walking groups conviviality and politicsįorced walks poverty, migration and expulsion.Īccompaniment - what or who accompanies us on our walks? Walking-with: methodologies for social change Walking and painting/sculpture/ photography/ writing Walking as a means to communicate across disciplines

Walking through transitioning identities.

Here are some suggestions for possible subjects for papers but we are mostly looking for subject matter that we as yet do not know about and cannot predict: (This space will sometimes be looked after by ushers, but it will remain the responsibility of delegates to safeguard their work, and sell copies.) If you are bringing anything very large or requiring particular attention, please let us know beforehand. We will provide table space for artists and academics to present (and distribute or sell) artworks, books, cds, dvds, etc. We invite contributions in a variety of forms: 20 minute papers, 10 minute provocations (‘diverting walking’ sessions – see below), performance and participatory walks on routes close to the conference, short performances about walking for the Saturday night social (which will be a free event, not an expensive conference meal). We will particularly welcome contributions that draw from immersive and engaged research.

‘Walking’s New Movements’ is an opportunity for walking activists, radical walkers, walking artists, and psychogeographers to discuss what is happening in walking now and where new initiatives, changes of direction and novel terrains are emerging. Organisers: Helen Billinghurst (University of Plymouth), Claire Hind (York St John University) and Phil Smith (University of Plymouth) 2019, (Friday 6pm to Sunday afternoon), Roland Levinsky Building, Drakes Circus, Plymouth. University of Plymouth (UK), November 1 st to 3 rd. ‘Walking’s New Movements’: a conference to discuss the latest developments and future prospects for radical walking and walking arts Topics: walking walking arts psychogeography politics of walking

On Walking by Phil Smith