Walking Publics/Walking Arts: walking, wellbeing and community during Covid-19

有证据表明散步和艺术对身体健康和心理健康都有好处。我们的项目解决了艺术与那些致力于在更广泛的社区中促进步行的人之间的空白。步行组织需要迅速找到新的方法来支持他们的成员在社会限制，并多样化的成员，以支持更多的人走得很好，在和超越流行病。2019冠状病毒病对文化组织构成了前所未有的挑战，需要重新考虑由于物理距离造成的做法。对封锁的反应创造了机会，让人们了解创造性的步行活动是如何进行的，并可用于减轻孤立和焦虑，保持健康和福祉，增强社会联系，促进文化赋权。该项目将为理解和应对COVID-19大流行及其影响做出重大贡献，生成有关关键活动的新数据，并创新艺术资源以快速实施，以支持健康，福祉，复原力和文化参与。该项目与合作伙伴组织，艺术家，文化工作者和居民合作，将捕捉：a）人们在COVID-19限制期间的步行体验和创造性干预。B）艺术家在限制条件下使用步行活动的“锁定”工作。c）艺术在大流行期间和从大流行中恢复期间维持、鼓励和更公平地支持步行的潜力。主要交付成果包括：i）关于步行体验和创造性步行方法的新数据集和报告ii）创意步行模型的策划数字画廊，开放访问的步行工具包和试点原型iii）文化步行峰会iv）三篇同行评审文章v）新的跨部门合作伙伴关系。

There is a proven evidence base for the benefits of both walking and art on physical health and mental wellbeing. Our project addresses the lacuna between the arts and those working to promote walking well in the wider community. Walking organisations need rapidly to find new ways to support their members during social restrictions, and to diversify membership to support more people to walk well in and beyond a pandemic. COVID-19 poses an unprecedented challenge to cultural organisations with the need to rethink practices due to physical distancing. Responses to lockdown have created the opportunity to understand how creative walking activities have been and could be used to mitigate isolation and anxiety, maintain health and wellbeing, enhance social connectivity, and facilitate cultural empowerment. This project will deliver a significant contribution to the understanding of, and response to, the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts, generate new data about a key activity, and innovate arts resources for rapid implementation to support health, wellbeing, resilience and cultural participation.Collaborating with partner organisations, artists, cultural workers, and residents, the project will capture: a) the walking experiences and creative interventions of people during COVID-19 restrictions.b) the 'lockdown' work of artists using walking activity within conditions of restriction.c) the potential of the arts to sustain, encourage and more equitably support walking during and recovering from a pandemic. Key deliverables include: i) a new data set and report on walking experiences and creative approaches to walking well and safely ii) a curated digital gallery of creative walking models, open-access Walking Toolkits and piloted prototypes iii) a Cultural Walking Summit iv) three peer-reviewed articles v) a new cross-sectoral partnership.