About this Event
Where is Humanity going? Boh!
What moves us to walk?
Why do we do it together?
Where do we go?
While walking, we ask ourselves these questions. Answers will come.
The first question is about learning from Rome, the city that regenerated itself through a number of significant transitions.
Latium, Mundus, Asylum, three forgotten myths we use as compass while walking together. Three stars to search for in the sky from the Observatory. An invitation to reinvent it.
A proposal by Stalker (Giulia Fiocca and Lorenzo Romito), Rome, Italy.
Stalker
Stalker is a collective subject, found in 1995, that engages research and actions within the landscape with particular attention to the areas around the city's margins and forgotten urban space, and abandoned areas or regions under transformation that are referred to here as "Actual Territories."
Stalker promotes interventions based on the spatial practices of exploration, listening, relation and on creative interactions with the environment, its inhabitants and their “archives of memories”. These processes aim to generate social and environmental relations that are self-organised and evolve over time. The sensitive and dynamic mapping of territories and communities generated through these processes remains easy to access. These interventions promote knowledge sharing, collaborative projects and raise the awareness of communities towards their territory and their cultural environment.
The Walking Festival of Sound
Walking Festival of Sound is a transdisciplinary event exploring the role of walking through and listening to our everyday surroundings. It combines a number of free and public events including walking performances, walking seminars and listening sessions, all taking place in diverse public spaces and online. Walking Festival of Sound facilitates a meeting point for the international network of practitioners and researchers interested in sound and walking. Through diverse events we explore how walking and listening practices can augment and challenge the way we perceive, navigate through, and care for our shared environments. In 2019 the festival took place in two cities, Stockholm, Sweden and Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. In April 2021, the festival moved to Krakow, Poland and Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2022, the festival visited Seoul, Korea and Vancouver, Canada. Zurich, Switzerland, is the festival's site in 2024.
The festival was founded and is directed by Jacek Smolicki and Tim Shaw.
This year's festival is supported by the Collegium Helveticum.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Collegium Helveticum The joint Institute for Advanced Studies of ETH, UZH, and ZHdK, 25 Schmelzbergstrasse, Zürich, Switzerland
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