Walk like a designer: Following the Haagse Beek, Artist Krijn Giezen, and the Water System of The Hague

This chapter explores walking as a form of eco-social design research through a case study of an urban stream in The Hague (NL). It draws on traversing this field site to trace how walking through an urban landscape can be guided by being oriented towards artistic design interventions; and how walking can be a form of research that informs design. We present the impressions and considerations generated in our walk as field notes, moving between observation, interpretation, and loose association – in conversation with archives, interviews, and random encounters. Our notes offer a way into engaging with complexity, and reveal how walking with an orientation towards eco-social design can be a way to make sense of seemingly disparate phenomena and issues, through drawing on multiple forms of knowing and experiencing landscapes.