This site (currently in early stages of construction) is about Richard Keating’s socially and environmentally engaged walking, drawing, making, writing and doing practice.
It messy, but in a good way, deeply entangled with people, communities, organisations and the other than human. As David Lugwig and El-Hani write in Transformative Transdisciplinarity: An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy (2025):
“In the face of planetary crises — from biodiversity loss to climate change to food security — transdisciplinary methods promise effective and just responses through equal collaborations. However, transdisciplinarity also creates complex challenges by bringing together different actors with different frameworks, like scientists, Indigenous and local communities, and policy makers. Successful collaboration among such actors requires navigating different f orms of knowledge, worldviews, values, and positions of power.”
At its heart the practice is a hopeful encounter and entanglement with place.
“Life is lived in a zone in which earthly substances and aerial media are brought together in the constitution of beings which, in their activity, participate in weaving the textures of the land. Here, organisms figure not as externally bounded entities but as bundles of interwoven lines of growth and movement, together constituting a meshwork in fluid space. The environment, then, comprises not the surroundings of the organism but a zone of entanglement.” – Bindings against Boundaries: Entanglements of Life in an Open World. Tim Ingold, 2008.
And a sense that landscapes are the interface between ecological and cultural forces; our surroundings still becoming and also holding memories both remembered and ancient.
From Walking the Land’s May’s First Friday Walk, 2026.
Assemblage of drawings made on Walking the Land’s April First Friday Walk and as a participant in their “Walking in Pairs” project.