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

散步和艺术对身体健康和精神健康的益处都有确凿的证据基础。我们的项目解决了艺术和那些致力于在更广泛的社区中推广良好步行的人之间的空白。步行组织需要迅速找到新的方式，在受到社会限制的情况下支持其成员，并使成员多样化，以支持更多的人在大流行期间和之后顺利行走。新冠肺炎对文化组织构成了前所未有的挑战，因为物理距离导致文化组织需要重新思考做法。对封锁的反应创造了机会，了解创造性步行活动如何已经并可以用于缓解孤立和焦虑、保持健康和福祉、加强社会联系和促进文化赋权。该项目将对理解和应对新冠肺炎疫情及其影响做出重大贡献，生成有关一项关键活动的新数据，并创新艺术资源以便快速实施，以支持健康、福祉、复原力和文化参与。与伙伴组织、艺术家、文化工作者和居民合作，该项目将捕捉：a)人们在新冠肺炎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)艺术在流行病期间维持、鼓励和更公平地支持步行和从流行病中恢复的潜力。主要成果包括：i)关于步行经验和步行健康和安全的创造性方法的新数据集和报告；ii)有创意的步行模型、开放式步行工具包和试点原型的精心策划的数字画廊；iii)文化步行峰会；iv)经过同行审查的三篇文章；v)新的跨部门伙伴关系。

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.