Practicing More-Than-Human Walks

Walking contributes to producing space. Yet, walking “more-than-human” geographies suggest that walking as a research method is also a more-than-human affair. Building on theories of hybrid and more-than-human geographies, this article provides theoretical and practical reflections on walking as method in the context of more-than-human relations. Specifically, we narrate two experiments with more-than-human walks, highlighting the importance of walking approach, posture, and attention. To do so, we provide a curation of our walking practice, which consists of two short walks—the first in Cork, Ireland, and the second in Charleroi, Belgium—that orients these walks toward mobility, trajectory, and encounter. As a form of practice, this description and analysis aim to pinpoint conceptual and practical challenges for practicing more-than-human walks, which raises questions about how to account for, perform, expose, or build from the more-than-human in walking methods. As a curation, this description aims to provide a heuristic intervention for uncovering embedded more-than-human entanglements that occur between walkers and the multiple layers of more-than-human trajectories that cocreate places.