About
At Ways to Walk, we help people connect more deeply with the places they inhabit, the futures they imagine, and the stories they carry. We use walking to bring change into being.
What is Ways to Walk?
Ways to Walk is a creative studio with its practice rooted in walking, sensory storytelling, and place-based imagination. We design participatory experiences that help people connect more deeply with the places they inhabit, the futures they imagine, and the stories they carry.
Every walk is different. Some are reflective, others playful, others speculative. Some focus on futures and climate, others on memory, story, or presence. What connects them all is a shared method and a clear purpose: to walk change into being, gently, creatively, and together.
Why walking?
Walking slows us down. It grounds attention, awakens the senses, and opens space for noticing what we often overlook, in the world, and in ourselves. Whether we are walking imagined futures, exploring present realities, or recovering forgotten stories, we begin by putting one foot in front of the other.
In a world of urgency and overload, walking offers an alternative: a way to reconnect with place, body, and possibility. It can also be a catalyst for change, whether that change happens on an individual or collective level, or sows the seeds for ground-up systems change.
How we walk
Our work (and walks) are guided by a method called senstoryscapes. This is a seven-step process for creating sensory, time-layered, participatory experiences. It was created by Suzanne Whitby as part of her doctoral work, with the intention of finding ways to reduce psychological distance, immerse people in experience, foster a sense of agency, and encourage change. Originally designed to encourage sustainability mindsets and climate action, the senstoryscapes method is now used as a catalyst for many different types of change, at all scales.
Each step of the senstoryscapes framework invites a different kind of engagement: grounding in place, opening the senses, weaving stories, wayfinding through space, creating, choosing, and returning. It’s flexible, gentle, and designed to meet people where they are.
We use this method across our formats, from walks and installations, to workshops and training, and more. You can learn more about senstoryscapes here →
Behind Ways to Walk
Ways to Walk is led by Suzanne Whitby, a facilitator, storyteller, foresight practitioner, and arts-based researcher with a background in science communication, participatory futures, and sensory storytelling.
Suzanne created senstoryscapes as part of her doctoral research, building on more than two decades of experience working with scientists, communities, and cultural organisations. She continues to lead the studio’s creative direction and facilitation, occasionally collaborating with artists, researchers, and changemakers across Europe.
For more about Suzanne’s work, visit suzannewhitby.com.
The pillars of our practice
Start with the body. (Walking)
A walk is never just a walk. Movement grounds attention, and attention changes everything. All our practices include walking at some point, and in cases where walking on two legs is impossible, we walk using aids, or we walk with our imagination.
Be where you are. (Presence)
We work with the textures of real places: their histories, their futures, their hidden stories. All our work is site-specific, sensory, and responsive to the landscapes we move through.
Create conditions for change.
We don’t promise transformation, but we invite imagination, agency, and gentle disruption. Through stories, creative prompts, and shared reflection, we encourage shifts, small and large, in thought, feeling, or future direction.
What matters to us
Slowness
We believe in the pace of walking, the power of pause, and the value of noticing.
Imagination
We make space for new stories to emerge, ones that stretch beyond the expected.
Participation
Change happens through conversation, curiosity, and shared experience.
Place
Everything we do is grounded in the real: the weather, the textures, the stories of here.
Playfulness
Fun, joy, a sense of play, a smattering of laughter. Because what’s life without these things?
Care
We try to hold space gently. That means thoughtful design, kind facilitation, and respect for complexity.
Co-creation
Nothing is created in isolation. Even when we think we’re alone.
Shaping hopeful, sustainable futures
For individuals, communities, the world.
Curious? Want to know more?
Explore our practices and our work, or let’s start a conversation. Book a discovery call or send us a note, and let’s explore what’s possible.
Prefer to walk alone?
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