walking as a question - 2021
Leave No Trace is an outdoor ethics education programme that has been designed as a guiding mindset for how one interacts with and influences the natural environments. As the act of walking experiences an upsurge in participants, our collective mark on the environment and its natural processes increase. As artists, one can argue that there is a responsibility in how one’s engagements shape the culture around an activity, and as walking spreads into more fields of life and research, this consideration becomes all the more important.
This paper aims to ask some emerging questions into how walking practices could incorporate or consider Leave No Trace within the practice. To investigate this topic I will be drawing on my artistic research into walking as practice, and my experience of both becoming and working as a Leave No Trace Ireland trainer.
Link to paper here (web resolution).
If you would like to print the paper, it is formatted for A5 size pages, and there is a printing quality PDF here.
Audio Paper
I have also made a short “audio paper” that explores some of the thoughts I have while walking related to my above research paper.