The Walking Journal
The Walking Journal is an agile research companion designed to adapt across diverse workshops and settings. It moves with participants, supporting reflection and creative expression in situ. Blending literary fragments, sensory cues, and open-ended instructions, the Walking Journal invites a form of emotional memory mapping grounded in embodied experience. Through sketches, tracings, and written impressions, it becomes both a personal archive and a shared method for engaging with urban spaces.
Below are the different editions of The Walking Journal.
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Walkability Workshop Prague 2024 Edition
This journal edition was developed for the workshop entitled Walkability Between Past and Present in Prague, 2024, both of which were supported and funded by the Slow Memory COST Action and the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague.
The Walking Journal © 2024 is shared under Creative Commons 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0) This means you can share and adapt it with authorship attribution. How to cite:
The Walking Journal © 2024 by Diana Salahieh, Layla Zibar, Akshatha Ravi Kumar, and Najla Jarkas.
Slow Memory and MSA Prague 2025 Edition
This Walking Journal [Slow Memory and MSA Prague 2025 Edition] is based upon work from COST Action Slow Memory (CA20105), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).
This Edition engages with Czech literary inspiration and unfolds the Cres Manifesto for Slow Memory scholarship to encourage the participants of the MSA conference Prague 2025 towards slow and reflective presence, thought and research.
The Walking Journal [Slow Memory and MSA Prague 2025 Edition] is compiled and designed by Diana Salahieh. Special thanks to Layla Zibar, Jenny Wüstenberg, and Katerina Kralova for their valuable inputs.
Walkability Workshop Aleppo 2025 Edition
This Walking Journal [Aleppo 2025 Edition] was developed for the April 2025 workshop in Aleppo, and was compiled and designed by Diana Salahieh. Special thanks to Andre Yacubian, Sozdar Abdo, Rama Omar, Mirma Alwareh, and Layla Zibar for their valuable inputs.
The Silent Walk 2025 Cards Edition
These walking cards were designed for “The Silent Walk: Embodied Remembrance in Prague’s Historic Center” developed as part of the walking tours for the MSA Prague 2025 conference. The walk and cards were designed by Diana Salahieh. Special thanks to Mounir Sabeh Affaki for his valuable inputs.
Priština 2025 Edition
Coming soon…
The Walking Journal × Mural Hunt – Prague, Operation Anthropoid mural, July 2025. Photo: Vjeran Pavlaković.