walking as method
How can walking together grow care, connection and solidarity amongst those of us whose lives are shaped by movement?
Walking is a way to get from one place to another. It can also be a way to get to know ourselves through each other, to share and listen, and to surface similar experiences and overlapping stories of migration, displacement and attachments to places which are not here.
This zine aims to share how we walk together and what makes walking together meaningful for us. We draw on our experiences of walking with two East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) community groups - ESEA Sisters and kindredpacket.
The zine is called “walking as method” as it explores what we have learned from each other about how we walk. A method is a way of doing - and there are many ways of doing walking, and walking together can do many things.
We created this zine to be carried in the pockets of walkers and walk organisers. We hope its pages help to open up space to reflect on what walking does, as well as to invite care, attentiveness and imagination in considering details of how we walk together - and what walking together might give rise to.
The zine was co-created by David Kam, JY Mak, Jonathan W. Y. Gray, Liliana Bounegru and Wing-Fai Leung.
This project grew out of an activist-in-residence project at King’s College London (2023-2025) exploring intersections between home, movement and digital technologies amongst people with East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) backgrounds.
As part of this we organised a workshop on walking with ESEA Sisters, kindredpacket and ESEA Outdoors UK, to collectively reflect on the needs and challenges faced by organisers and identify ways to support learning, exchange and care amongst groups as part of sustaining organising efforts.
If you’re interested in getting a copy of the zine, please get in touch.