For my current research on Fieldworking, I am reading various works on walking. Several tabs are open on my browser as I flip between key texts to develop the framework for the project: Art of Fieldwork, Mental Maps, Ways of Walking …

This morning, and pursuant to my earlier post about pathways, sites and territories, I’ve stumbled on a collection of Tim Ingold’s essays, Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description. A review written by Sharon Blackie and published by Earthlines reveals that wayfaring, as an unending process, is a core concept for Ingold and is “the fundamental mode by which living beings inhabit the earth”. Wayfaring and pathways are fundamental to being human and becoming:

In the context of developing his ideas about movement, Ingold discusses ‘dwelling’, a term and concept usually attributed to philosopher Martin Heidegger, originating from his 1951 lecture ‘Building Dwelling…