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Abstract

This paper explores how the emergence of a walking practice operates as an experimental method of research and making within my own professional graphic design studio, work-form. Graphic Design processes are typically situated within a studio environment whilst often following familiar and habitual methods. This is a characteristic of my position however, in the wider context of professional graphic design and design education there are calls to question and disrupt familiar and established methods and to look outwards to how other disciplines can inform these procedures. Here I advocate for the purpose, value and function of interchangeable, active practices. The visual outcomes and paper identify and analyse the possibilities in which walking can become a valuable practice to serve design in novel, unusual and unfamiliar ways. A review of the literature and examples of art and design practices and artefacts  associated to walking, design processes, representation and the everyday have been analysed in this research. A practice-based research method was adopted for this enquiry. It gave agency to build a generative hybrid practice that operates alongside and looked beyond my regular working position. Outcomes of this research used image based vernacular through ‘studio walks’ to form representations through interfaces, maps, moving image and text. Analysis and written commentary were carried out to understand the conditions of the walks, methods used and artefacts made. A conclusion argues to redefine the artefact as an arteface, a hybrid device that can operate as both a stand alone artefact but also function as an interface between each part of this new practice, the viewer and the designer. Furthermore a new suitable line of enquiry is suggested to develop collaborative potential for this practice. This paper was submitted as part of the MA Academic Practice at the University of the Arts London.