We walk
We design and lead participatory walking experiences across Europe from our base in the heart of the Alps.
Creating participatory, place-based experiences.
We collaborate with partners on projects and occasionally offer public walks. Our work focuses on four key areas:
Sense
Awaken attention to place
Connect & understand
Link lived experience to systems
Imagine
Explore possible worlds together
Make
Create something temporary, leave with something lasting
All of our work is grounded in senstoryscapes, a seven-step method created by Suzanne Whitby that invites people to connect with place, time, and each other through the senses. The goal? Immersion, engagement, and shifts in thinking, feeling, and acting.
Some of our walks and experiences are designed for the public. Others are shaped in collaboration with organisations or commissioned for specific purposes. Whatever the format, they all begin with walking and aim to leave you seeing, feeling, or thinking differently.
Explore our four practice areas below, or get in touch to discuss a bespoke experience for your festival, community, cultural institution, or city.
Sense
Awaken attention to place
Connect & understand
Link lived experience to systems
Imagine
Explore possible worlds together
Make
Create something temporary, leave with something lasting
Sense
Awaken attention to place
Our sensory walks and participatory experiences invite people to slow down, notice, and reconnect with the world around them. Through sight, sound, touch, scent, and even taste, participants rediscover the richness of their surroundings and the stories that live in everyday spaces.
These experiences can be intimate introductions to deeper engagement or simply opportunities to practise presence and attention.
Commissionable formats
- 90-minute public walk series, thematic or seasonal
- 60–90-minute facilitated walks for conferences or meetings
- Half-day “Sensing Your Museum / Neighbourhood” sessions with staff or communities
- Custom-designed walks and walkshops
Examples of past walks include:
Colour Walks | Smell Walks | Sound Walks | Touch Walks | Taste Walks | Mindful Multi-sensory | Wild Urban Nature | Portals | Look Up! Walks
Possible partner outputs:
Photos, participant quotes, a short “What we noticed” field note, and consented images for reports or social sharing.
Available: Europe-wide (travel and subsistence costs apply)
Curious?
- Book a call →
- Request a quote →
- Learn more about our 90-minute public walk format → [coming soon]
Connect & understand
Link lived experience to systems
These facilitated walks and walkshops make complex topics tangible and relatable. We dive into topics that range from climate change to circular economies and multi-solving to systems thinking. By walking through real places, participants connect what they see and feel to the larger systems that shape our lives.
Each walk creates space for reflection and dialogue, turning abstract issues into shared, grounded understanding.
Commissionable formats
- 2–4-hour thematic walks tailored to your city, site, or neighbourhood
- One-day programmes combining a morning walk and afternoon reflection workshop
- Custom-designed walks for sustainability initiatives, organisations, conferences, or festivals, or
Examples of past walks include:
Climate Conversations Walks | Circular Economy Walks | Deep Time Walks | Sustainability in the City Walks | Systems & Change Walks | Conscious Evolution Walks
Possible partner outputs:
Summary notes with local examples, themed prompts used, and insights gathered; materials suitable for communications or evaluation reporting.
Available: Europe-wide (travel and subsistence costs apply)
Curious?
- Book a call →
- Request a quote →
- See our Climate Conversations Walk (a popular format) →
Imagine
Explore possible worlds together
Our imagination walks and installations invite people to step into futures that could be, whether playful, plausible, or profound. Using sensory artefacts, anchors to place, storytelling, and participatory prompts, participants sense and discuss what different futures might feel like.
These experiences spark creativity and agency, helping people rehearse change and explore the paths that could lead us there.
We design imaginative, participatory futures experiences at different scales, from playful local explorations to deep, research-driven walkshops.
Commissionable formats
- 2–3-hour participatory imagination walks
- Half-day or full-day Walk the Futures walkshops combining sensory artefacts and creative reflection
- Bespoke installations or experiential exhibits for festivals, museums, and cultural events
- Collaborative “futures in place” programmes for communities or teams
Examples of past projects include:
Walk the Futures | Our City 2055 Walks | Goold Ancestor Walks (also called Future Citizen Wals) | Speculative Story Walks | Future Artefacts Exhibitions | Futures for Cities Workshops | Memory Walks
Possible partner outputs:
Creative documentation (photos, field notes, sensory artefacts), public engagement summaries, or reflections for exhibitions and reports.
Available: Europe-wide (travel and subsistence costs apply)
Curious?
- Book a call →
- Request a quote →
- Learn more about the Our City 2055 Walk (popular) → [coming soon]
Make
Create something temporary, leave with something lasting
Our Earthed Art walks invite participants to explore impermanence, creativity, and connection with place
Each walk begins with gathering: of materials, impressions, and ideas. That’s followed by quiet creation, and we end with a shared reflection and gentle leave-behind.
These are not art classes, but guided experiences in seeing, feeling, and making.
Participants work with found natural or man-made materials to create site-specific, ephemeral artworks, individually or together, that honour the textures, moods, and stories of a particular place.
Commissionable formats
- 2–3-hour Earthed Art walks for public programmes, conferences, or festivals
- Half-day or one-day creative engagement workshops for organisations or communities
- Custom collaborative installations co-designed for parks, museums, cultural initiatives, and celebrations
Examples of past and related formats:
Earthed Art Walks | Collaborative Land Art | Urban Nature Creations | Creative Reflection Walks
Possible partner outputs:
High-quality photographs of creations, brief reflection notes, and optional documentation for exhibitions or reports (all with consent).
Available: Europe-wide (travel and subsistence costs apply)
Curious?
- Book a call →
- Request a quote →
- See Earthed Art in action (short film coming soon)
Explore all of our services, or get in touch for a conversation
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.
Want more information?
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.
Beyond the walks:
facilitation, moderation and talks
Facilitation is at the heart of everything we do, whether it’s holding space for dialogue, moderating an event, or sharing ideas about creative climate engagement, futures, and systems change.
If you are searching for a professional facilitator, lively moderator, or interactive talk grounded in the idea that systems change is possible, and that builds on ideas of participation, sensory storytelling, possible futures, and the creative potential of walking-based engagement, we'd love to help.
If you’re looking for a professional facilitator, a lively moderator, or an interactive talk grounded in the belief that systems change is possible, and that new systems can be built on ideas of participation, sensory storytelling, possible futures, and the creative potential of walking-based engagement, we’d love to help.
Curious? Let's talk
Who we work with
We work with people and organisations who care about place, imagination, and the stories we live by. Together we walk change into being.
Our partners, collaborators, and clients include festivals, museums, cultural institutions, artists, universities, public sector organisations, and community-led projects.
Whether you’re looking for a participatory programme, a residency, a bespoke walk, or creative climate engagement, we’d love to explore it with you.
We bring creative direction, skilled facilitation, and twenty years of experience across science, society, storytelling, and sustainability. All of our work is shaped in collaboration, and grounded in our core method, senstoryscapes.
If you already have an idea, get in touch. If you’re not sure yet, we’re happy to help shape something together.
Related work
Change, participatory methods, and hopeful, sustainable futures are essential to who we are and what we do. If walking isn’t your thing, you may be interested in our other initiatives:
- Visit Futures Fit for building resilience futures for science-driven businesses and Scenarios→Strategy Intensives [more →]
- Visit SciComm Success for ways to communicate complexity to non-experts [more →]
You’re thinking: “This sounds like something we’d love to explore…”
Let’s start a conversation. We’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas, and together, explore what’s possible.