Family Routes: creating connection through walking

‘Family Routes: Creating Connection through Walking’ sets out to:

Explore the everyday walking practices of families.
Identify the place-based challenges families face when it comes to mobility.
Capture the walking experiences of families and their impact on wellbeing through creative methods. In response to national agendas around creative health and wellbeing, and the government’s renewed emphasis on place-based culture, the project sought to understand how families connect to each other and to places through walking in their local environments. We focused on amplifying the challenges families, particularly those with preschool-aged children encounter while walking, to demonstrate how walking can inspire imagination, provided logistical barriers are addressed.

Crucially, we aimed to listen to every member of the family, from the youngest to the oldest, and together, find creative ways to capture these experiences. Through this approach, we hope to showcase the potential of walking to foster deeper family connections and well being.

To achieve this we set out to co-create a project in partnership with interdisciplinary experts and practitioners who each brought their unique perspectives to the project design and delivery.