Participatory, multi-sensory walks that engage people in place and possibility
We work with cultural organisations, cities, communities, and organisations to create place-based walks and walkshops that help people notice differently, imagine boldly, and discover their role in shaping what comes next.
What’s this all about?
At Ways to Walk, we work with communities, cultural organisations, and curious individuals to design participatory walks, creative foresight experiences, installations, and sensory engagements that are grounded, embodied, and sometimes just a little surprising. Walking is always part of our work.
Why walking? Good question. Our cities, towns, and neighbourhoods offer endless opportunities to wander, notice, and imagine. They invite us to step out of our homes and offices into a world rich with wonder, strangeness, and potential. When combined with story, intention, and sensory reflection, walking becomes a way of seeing systems, imagining alternatives, and recognising our agency in shaping what’s possible.
Some of our work explores climate, sustainability, and futures. Some is playful, poetic, or reflective.
All of it involves walking (and sometimes “walking” means simply moving from one place to another, depending on context and ability) and ends in new ways of seeing, feeling, and being.
Created and led by Suzanne Whitby, using the senstoryscapes methodology.
What we offer
We design experiences, create artefacts, and share methods that help people sense, imagine, and act differently.
Our practice combines design, storytelling, and facilitation, always rooted in place, participation, and imagination.
Custom-designed walking experiences that bring communities together around climate, futures, place, or specific challenges. From 90-minute walks to half-day walkshops. We design them, train your facilitators, and provide everything you need to run them again.
Multi-sensory objects and installations that make possible futures tangible - whether as part of a walk, exhibition, or standalone experience. Created to provoke, invite, and spark imagination.
Learn participatory walking methods, futures literacy through embodied practices, and facilitation skills for transformative public engagement. For practitioners, changemakers, and cultural workers.
We also work with a handful of clients each year offering professional facilitation, moderation and talks.
Curious? Inspired?
How we work
Our walks follow a rhythm:
Sense
We walk and practice active noticing: what’s here, what calls for attention, what often goes unseen.
Reveal
We walk and make visible the systems, challenges, and possibilities that shape this place.
Imagine
We walk and explore what could be: alternative futures, different stories, new ways forward.
Make
We walk and create something: individually or collectively, tangible but fleeting.
We offer a selection of walks in each area, and can collaborate with you to create custom walks and workshops, depending on what you need and the experience you want to create.
Who we help
We work with:
- Cultural organisations, museums & heritage sites
Create memorable public programming that gets people thinking about futures, not just the past. - Cities & planners
Move beyond consultation workshops. Give communities embodied ways to explore futures and shape place decisions. - Community groups & NGOs
Accessible, participatory formats for building climate literacy, connection, and ground-up change.
Walk with us
Upcoming walks, walkshops and invitations. Open to all.
Earthed Art Walkshop, Innsbruck (Waitlist available)
A creative, reflective walk that invites you to gather natural and found materials, create site-specific art, and leave gentle traces that honour impermanence, connection, and place.
Walk the Futures: Innsbruck Edition (Deutsch)
Walk the Futures ist ein geführter Spaziergang, bei dem du erkundest, wie sich das Leben in deiner Region im Jahr 2055 anfühlen könnte – durch Geschichten, Überlegungen und die Orte, die du bereits kennst.
Colour Walk, Innsbruck (Waitlist)
Join us for a winter colour walk through Innsbruck. We’ll offer you a colour when you arrive, and you’ll use this as a simple, creative way to notice your surroundings, connect with place, and see the familiar in new ways.
Closing the Loop – Circular Economy Walk: Reading, UK
A creative, place-based walk that explores the journey of materials through our city, from take-make-waste to reuse-repair-renew, and invites you to imagine what a truly circular economy could look like.
Climate Walk: Conversations for Change: Innsbruck (Pilot, Deutsch)
Join us for the Austrian pilot of our new climate walk. It's called "Climate Walk: Conversations for Change", and it's all about understanding climate causes, consequences and solutions, right here in Innsbruck.
Closing the Loop – Circular Economy Walk: Innsbruck (Deutsch)
A creative, place-based walk that explores the journey of materials through our city, from take-make-waste to reuse-repair-renew, and invites you to imagine what a truly circular economy could look like.
Latest field notes
What we’ve been working on recently
KINWORK Tirol: Jobs for the Future Booklet (Innsbruck, 2055)
Pradl hält z’samm (Innsbruck, 2055)
