Strathclyde Water Walk

The ‘Strathclyde Water Walk’ depicts and describes 12 locations in and around the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow that have a relationship to water. It invites people, collectively or on their own, to walk (or jog, run, wander or wheel) the route at their own pace observing, discussing, learning and reflecting on these locations, and ways they relate to water in different ways: whether as forms of material and built culture, place names, infrastructure and technology, cultural and historical narratives, or socio-economic practices and entities. It seeks to broaden out, and open up, understandings of ways water is entwined in the historical, spatial and social-cultural fabric of place. Simultaneously it endeavours to encourage practices of active mobility, and the broader health and wellbeing possibilities of walking and spending time in the outdoors, while also enacting/provoking for an attention to place through walking: as a practice of movement and observation, a way of coming to know a place, and a means of ‘stakeholder engagement’ that is creative, participatory, transdisciplinary and playful.