Hacer camino, deseo y creatividad en los campus universitarios para una docencia e investigación pedestres

Abstract

The act of walking and path-making is proposed as both an artistic and pedagogical tool, offering a unique methodology that promotes creativity, spatial awareness, and environmental observation, particularly in the case of 'desire paths’. To explore this phenomenon, we draw on the works of artists like Richard Long, Olafur Eliasson and Esther Ferrer, who have used walking as a means to question productivism and investigate the relationship between the body and space. The text emphasizes the importance of studying these paths in settings such as university campuses, where they reflect patterns of movement. In an educational context, walking becomes a creative experience that bridges research and creation, leaving both physical and conceptual imprints on the aesthetic notion of landscape and on society at large.