More About Mywalks
What is 'Mywalks'?
‘Mywalks’ is about (re-)engaging with our immediate urban, day-to-day, city, country, local, taken-for-granted environments and geographies through the medium of photography and audiography.
Why?
For the simple reason that all too often we don’t – we autopilot on ipods, get into our cars and turn the stereo up, dash from place to place, focus on where we’re going, not where we are (and what is there).
So mywalks is about paying more attention to the streets, places, and spaces we walk through...
Mywalks is for all, young and old…
It’s about voicing our own opinions on our neighbourhoods…
It’s about exploring what you hear and/or notice yourself hearing as you walk through your local environment…
It’s about running your fingers along a wall, picking leaves off a hedge, walking barefoot in the summer…
It’s about the smells that take us back to very specific places and times in our past…
It’s about…
- What flicks our switches?
- What turns us on?
- What tickles us?
- What makes us look?
- What makes us listen?
- What makes us touch?
- What disgusts us?
- What makes us sigh?
- What frustrates or irritates?
- What intrigues us?
- What makes us ask 'how' or 'why'?
- What makes us smile?
- What makes us feel warm inside?
- What makes us slow down?
- What makes us forget where we're going, or where we came from?
- What makes us take the long way round?
- What makes us make a beeline?
- What stops us in our tracks?
- What makes us LOOK again?
- What makes us think?
- What do we LOVE?
- What do we HATE?
How do I take part?
Use the 'Upload a Photo' facility on the left of the page, or send photographs to us (mywalks@northumbria.ac.uk) of things (any scale, any size) you like, hate, want to change (and so on) about the environments you pass through when walking.
If you submit your photos by email, we encourage you to tell us:
- The title you would like to be displayed for your photo
- Where the picture was taken - city, town, place, and county
- A brief description - whether it is something you LOVE or HATE, and why…?
- Possible 'keywords' to help 'place' your picture into a relevant themed gallery
And, if you do want to add text/information to your photo then clearly mark which photo you are referring to in your email!
We are also interested in other non-visual representations of peoples’ ‘mywalks’, and encourage short audio files covering the same topics, or other submissions you would like to send.