The Walking Seminar is a research-based project that explores walking as an aesthetic practice, a method of inquiry, and a form of shared attention. Developed over several years, the project combines landscape studies, creative fieldwork, and contemplative movement to examine how place, ecology, and cultural memory are experienced through the body. Walking is treated not only as movement, but as a generative process that produces images, questions, and embodied forms of knowledge. The seminar is structured as a collective investigation that unfolds in dialogue with specific sites and the people who know them intimately. Community members, local historians, land stewards, park rangers, scientists, and researchers are invited into the process, not as guest lecturers but as active contributors to how the landscape is read and interpreted. Their expertise introduces ecological data, historical context, and lived knowledge that complicate purely visual or poetic responses to place. These encounters shift the walk from an individual experience toward a shared field of inquiry shaped by multiple ways of knowing.

Creative production emerges alongside these exchanges through drawing, mapping, writing, sound recording, and dialogue. The project values slowness, repetition, and sustained presence, allowing insights to accumulate through movement rather than through predetermined outcomes. By situating artistic practice within real landscapes and collaborative frameworks, The Walking Seminar positions walking as a critical tool for research, one capable of holding ecological awareness, social exchange, and creative inquiry in the same stride.