walk · listen · create, Belgium
Active since 2019 the activities of this cultural non profit, based in Belgium, are integrated in an online community for all interested in walking arts and soundwalking, via an online, collaborative webportal, and a crowdsourced database of work, projects, and events. WLC promotes walking arts, and hosts regular online meet ups and talks, events, and collaborative projects. The network of participants comprises almost 2000 contributing artists, with over 2500 subscribers to their weekly newsletter. Since 2019, WLC has organized the yearly Sound Walk September (SWS), a crowdsourced international festival for listening and walking, with participants from all continents, and activities in dozens of countries, culminating in the Sound Walk September Awards. It organizes monthly online Walk Listen Cafes, extended in this project with WALC Cafes and the first ever yearly global walking art awards; the Marŝarto Awards. WLC partnered with the walking arts encounters/conferences Drifting Bodies/Fluid Spaces in Guimaraes in 2020 (UMinho), in the walking arts encounters/conference Walking as a Question in Prespa (Greece) in 2021 and 2023 (UOWM), and in the walking arts encounters/conference Relational Geographies and Walking Arts in Catalonia in 2022 and 2024 (Nau Coclea). WLC’s role will be to assist UOWM, and Action Synergy in project coordination. WLC will be responsible for the general artistic coordination, the management and realization of the online platform, online events and the online parts of the project.
TEAM
Geert Vermeire
Geert Vermeire is a nomadic curator, writer, and artist with a global career spanning over two decades across five continents. He specializes in developing collaborative projects rooted in the ethical engagement of cultural action. Working alongside a diverse group of creatives and activists—including ecologists, anthropologists, musicologists, and software developers—he fosters innovative and meaningful collaborations. Specific interest in his practice goes to co-creation, collaborative methodologies in a more than human perspective and to walking as a creative instrument, unfolding around human connections, text and space, resulting in art encounters, exhibitions, works of arts, site-specific interventions, locative media and in creative walks engaging both with the landscape and with those walking through the landscape. He is initiator of Made of Walking, co-founder of Locative Media Supercluster, curator of Oika, co-founder of walk · listen · create (WLC), co-coordinator of the bi-annual Walking Arts Encounters/Conference in Prespa (WAC), co-coordinator of The Walking Body in Guimaraes (TWB), co-director of the bi-annual Walking Arts and Relational Geographies Encounters in Catalonia. He is the artistic coordinator of WALC, together with Yannis Ziogas.
Babak Fakhamzadeh
After receiving his M.Sc. in Mathematics from Delft University, Babak has worked in the Global South, providing IT solutions to NGOs and news organizations. To date, he is the only person to have won the UN World Summit Award three times; in 2012 for Uganda, in 2016 for Brazil, and in 2021 for The Netherlands.
He has a keen interest in creating mobile solutions for urban discovery that move decision making powers into the hands of the individual. This, along the lines of the thoughts and ideals of the Situationists.
Babak co-founded the online platform walk · listen · create (WLC). In WALC, he is responsible for managing the WALC archive and platform within WLC.
Annemarie Lopez
Annemarie is an Italian-Australian writer, editor and digital storyteller/creator of walking games. She has worked as a cultural journalist in the UK, France and Australia.
Annemarie holds a PhD in Cultural Studies, focused on the intersections between urban walking, fiction and psychogeography. Currently based in London, Annemarie loves walking in the city and the wider world, and especially in her ancestral Aeolian Islands, Sicily.
She is doing the social media and marketing on behalf of Walk Listen Create at WALC.