Hi Alec

There is a version of this that I have experimented with walking live on social media using twitter and Viewranger or Social Hiking.

Both platforms were designed to be able to follow walkers and see their social media postings. Social Hiking is amazing as it will aggregate several walkers' social media from the same walk and aggregate repeated walks over the same route/area over time.

The concept is: a walker walks to the live remote instructions of another for whom the route is significant and well remembered, observing and commenting via twitter or text.

It was quite fun to do the walk 'blind' with the 'remote' person giving instructions/directions etc. I was interested in the affective experience of both.

Delays in routing tweets/texts introduced a random edge for the walker.

This is a concept I never fully worked through to a protocol for this as other stuff took over. I would be very interested in developing this.

More info on the platforms used here:

http://www.walknowtracks.co.uk/tools.html

best wishes

Richard

On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 at 20:16, Alec Finlay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I want to thank everyone who emailed today for all the wonderful positive responses I received with reference to the Proxy Walk idea.

It gives me great deal of faith that we can make this happen and confirms my hope that such a simple idea will touch many people, as I felt sure it could. For now, I have kept everyone's names and addresses.

My plan is to apply for funding for the wider project on disability and access. I will be in touch when I have a decision about that. I am sure the proxy work project will happen anyway, but I want to wait a few months before I begin. I would like to complete the first one as a pilot and then I can share that with people – not that there will be any obligation to repeat the way that we approach the walks. A simple form such as this should be able to be interpreted in many different ways.

It was very pleasing to get so many emails from people in other countries, and of course it will be fine for proxy walks to happen anywhere.

I imagine that the first walks might happen in July or August of this year, and then I would try to have a much greater number in the summer of the following year. After the pilot has happened anyone would be able to do one at any time as part of the project

Do please feel free to tell other people about the idea if you think they may be interested. There is no limit to the number of people who can take part.

Thanks

Alec FInlay
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