We are happy to be having Tim Ingold as a guest speaker at the Walking Assembly Confluance in Salt on the 9th of May. You can register for the event via our email: [email protected]🧚🏼♂️
Ingold has reshaped anthropology through a practice-based approach to knowledge. His work understands life as lived along lines and paths, where walking, making, and perceiving become ways of thinking. Moving between anthropology, art, architecture, and design, Ingold shows that knowledge grows through attention, movement, and engagement with the world, privileging wayfaring over distant observation.
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We suggest three books that speak directly to the themes of the Walking Assembly:
- Ways of Walking: Ethnography and Practice on Foot (2008)
- Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description (2011)
- Lines: A Brief History (2007)
Ingold has transformed walking into a method of research and artistic practice, demonstrating that knowledge emerges through movement, perception, and embodied engagement. Through concepts such as wayfaring, lines, and the education of attention, he has inspired artists, architects, and researchers to treat walking as inquiry, creativity, and learning. His presence at the Assembly is a true honor.
More information can be found at timingold.com
Looking forward to the Muga River expedition!🪨🪰🏞️🌳
We also invite everyone to register for the Walking Assembly Confluence in Salt on the 9th of May!🐚find more info on our website: artdelcaminar.org
Photos: @claracoclea
El programa complet de la Confluencia a l’Assemblea dels Caminants 2026 és aquí (swipe for english, desliza para español)🌞
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Registration: [email protected]
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Clara’s visit to the Muga River delta :) we invite you to the confluence happening on the 9th of May in Salt (near Girona) 💫 register by April 28th
The confluence includes a public talk with Tim Ingold, an experimental fieldwork session and more!
For more details check our website
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The project is supported by @naucoclea@lumieredencre@interregpoctefa
Last days to apply for the Muga River expedition in Albanyà, Catalonia during Walking Assembly 2026🌸
Walking Assembly is a nomadic, field-based gathering for artists, researchers, educators, and collectives interested in walking as a form of knowledge-making, relational practice, and ecological inquiry.
At Walking Assembly 2026, water – and more specifically the Muga River – will serve as both guiding metaphor and material presence, foregrounding flow, transformation, accumulation, erosion, and return as pedagogical forces.
More info via link in bio :)
The project is supported by @naucoclea@lumieredencre@interregpoctefa
photo credits: @claracoclea@luce_choules #WalkingAssembly #Muga #WalkingAsThinking #Fieldwork #WalkingArt
Applications are now open for the Walking Assembly 9–13 May 2026, a nomadic, field-based gathering where learning arises through walking, presence, and collective engagement.
Applications for the walking expedition should include:
* 500-word statement of interest
* 250-word biography + 3 links to relevant work
* Walkshop participation preference
Deadline: 28 February 2026
💌Send applications to: [email protected] (Subject: Walking Assembly 2026 + your name)
More information can be found on our website (link in bio)
Information Session:
An online info session was held on 3 February 2026, hosted by the curatorial team, introducing the Assembly, participation formats, application process, and expedition groups. The session has been recorded and is available on our website. This is a chance to hear directly from the team, understand the spirit of the Assembly, and prepare your application.
Photo credits: @luce_choules
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Trobareu la informació en català a l'enllaç de la bio / Encontraréis la información en castellano en el enlace de la bio
Walking Assembly 2026 unfolds in two formats: an open confluence in Salt, and a nomadic walking expedition along the Muga River in Albanyà.
The Assembly opens with a one-day confluence in Salt (near Girona): a shared gathering that brings together up to 120 participants through talks, conversations, walks, workshops, and collective fieldwork. It includes a public conversation with Tim Ingold, an introduction to the walking expedition and thematic walkshops, as well as parallel experimental fieldwork sessions and a collective walk in the Urban Gardens of Salt. The confluence is open to all interested participants (registration via e-mail).
Following this, a smaller group of selected participants will continue into a four-day walking expedition along the Muga River in Albanyà. Walking together through river landscapes, participants will take part in themed walkshops and remote fieldwork, combined with daily collective gatherings at the base camp to share experiences, questions, and insights.
The expedition is structured around four thematic walkshops:
* The river that sees us with Clara Garí & Marc Caellas: exploring the river as a witnessing presence and relational partner in walking and research.
* Walking, Writing, and the Commons of Attention with Geert Vermeire & Fred Adam: experimenting with walking and writing as shared practices of attention and care.
* Personal and Other Pilgrimages with Claudia Zeiske & Nick May: reflecting on pilgrimage, movement, and personal journeys as forms of collective and situated knowledge.
* Walking on Water with Pau Cata & Patricia Healy McMeans: engaging with water as a material, metaphor, and method for walking-based inquiry.
* In parallel, a remote fieldwork, Co-produced geographies and counter cartographies coordinated by Luce Choules, invites both expedition and non-expedition participants to contribute photographic fieldwork, forming a shared, evolving archive and future publication.
Photo credits: Sebastia Masramon
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Trobareu la informació en català a l’enllaç de la bio / Encontraréis la información en castellano en el enlace de la bio
All the movements and encounters of Walking Assembly 2026 are guided by a central idea: that learning can emerge through walking, presence, and being together in place.
We invite you to join us for a nomadic Walking Assembly in Salt and along the Muga River in Albanyà, Catalonia.
Conceived as an alternative to the academic format of previous editions, Walking Assembly is not a conference but an assembly in motion, where knowledge is not taught but arises through shared walking, attention, and collective experience. Water, and specifically the Muga River, serves as both guiding metaphor and material presence throughout the Walking Assembly, foregrounding flow, transformation, accumulation, erosion, and return as pedagogical forces.
Theme: Dynamic Knowledge: moving together in practice
Concept: How to learn without teaching
9–13 May 2026
Salt → Albanyà → Muga River
We hope to see you there! :•)
Photo credits: @luce_choules
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Organised by Nau Côclea with an international curatorial team, within the framework of the HO1 cross-border project (Spain–France).
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Trobareu la informació en català a l'enllaç de la bio / Encontraréis la información en castellano en el enlace de la bio
