To
WalkProject

Steve Hoffman

Initiator implementor, designer and proprietor of the TO WALK project

"My expertise and experience, developed over the last thirty years, has strongly influenced my design ethos and approach to my business practice and higher education design contexts, particularly in the three-dimensional disciplines.

My design expertise is multidisciplinary, the various incarnations of my design practise have had me involved in landscape photography and graphic design, but my preferred 'design home' is in the three-dimensional product world.

I have over 30 years’ experience in design of furniture for the early years and primary educational environments, and this expertise and experience influences the outcomes of the projects undertaken to develop our practice product portfolio.

My designs are imbued with an innovative 'User Rich' research and development approach, which, I believe, adds both user value and sustainability to our products' performance.

My previous practice, KAN-GAR-ROO Ltd, launched in 2010 and wound up in 2018 was a design practice developing innovative ‘curriculum rich’ furniture for a new generation of early years and primary educational contexts."

KAN-GAR-ROO Portfolio

Jake Attree

Landscape fine artist and regular contributor to the TO WALK project

"Painting is poetry, not documentary. It’s the art of suggestion.

Yorkshire’s geology, history and culture are woven into Jake's creative DNA."

Andy Milligan

Artist, designer, and educator with co-design, community and walking related spatial research interests and new contributor to the TO WALK project

My research reimagines the interior as an expanded practice and part of a wider spatial ecology using sculpture, installation, and drawing to reveal rich conceptual possibilities and new spatial narratives. With a background in funded research on communities, behaviour change, to future dwelling, I have exhibited and published internationally.

My recent project entitled “Sticks” explores the contemporary pilgrimage through seven found, hand-carved, and 3D carved walking sticks in two iconic K6 telephone boxes in rural Fife.  “Sticks” reinterprets the tele of the telephone, e.g., in covering long distances, and the linking of the near to the far, far off in a site-specific installation as part of the Journeys in Design initiative and the FLAX Fest 2024 public engagement programme.

Strijbos & Van Rijswijk

Soundscape composers and occasional contributors to the TO WALK project

"Our installations and compositions transform the familiar into the extraordinary. In our work we use live and recorded, digital and analogue sound, live performances and the location where they take place.

We are building new, unique musical tools and platforms to deliver our work. We play with perceptions of what is real and what is not.

Coasts, landscapes, lake shores, cityscapes, glaciers, museums, concert halls; we take our audience on imaginative journeys.

With over 25 years of experience, we have created a body of work through continuous experimentation and application of creativity that breaks new ground in participatory site-specific sound artworks."

Andrew Robinson

Freelance designer, web developer, educator, and 3D artist based in Sheffield, UK.

Co-founder of AW–AR Studio.