Abstract

In this chapter, Geurts examines happy and less happy collaborations between people and (other) materials/objects in the act of walking. What happens when walking breaks down? This is a phenomenological question, but one that deserves historically specific answers. This chapter suggests two tools: 1) to distinguish between "helpful" materials/objects and "unhelpful" matter/things. When, for walkers, materials turn into matter, this has consequences for a) the materials themselves, b) the walker's body, c) the activity of walking, d) the walking space. 2) In order to discover what happens in these four phenomenological transitions from material to matter, we also need to listen to walkers' stories.

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