Walking as Research Practice is a special collaborative issue between WARP and Soapbox derived from the Walking as Research Practice (WARP) conference in 2022.
It argues that the act of walking centres the body in a research practice. It is about consciously deciding how to use motion within an environment, and which types of data to sense, sift, and assimilate. It is about, the publishers say, 'visceral exchanges between a sensing body in motion and the bodies of knowledge sequestered in the phenomena that make up a site of research.'
It asks us what might be considered the research output of a walking practice? Does the walk activate our senses, or do our senses demand that we walk? Since walking involves encounters with various objects and subjects, how might it help us emphasise our connection to the more-than-human world? In addition, walking reveals different entry points to a city. Could walking provide a path toward more socially just urban spaces and commons?
Walking as Research Practice contains an introduction by design critic and educator Alice Twemlow and urbanist and researcher Tania A. Cardoso, and is designed to be read while walking.
Roma, 252pp, 12cm x 19cm, paperback, 2024
