This paper presents an interdisciplinary approach to explore the interplay between walkability, memory, embodied experience, imagination, and material surroundings. This approach is explored through the workshop, Walkability Between Past and Present, a pedagogical and research experiment that investigated embodied practices in the historic center of Prague. During this four-day creative mapping workshop, the research approach embraced the 'Slow Memory' concept1 emphasizing deceleration as a way for critically engaging with embodied analyses of walkability, navigating slowmoving memory and urban change. The workshop’s activities focused on uncovering overlooked or forgotten memory pathways—shaped by individual experiences, collectively shared, and spatially stimulated. These included lectures, exploratory walks, and hands-on sessions in bodily awareness, creative writing and digital mapping, guiding participants to be present in an immersive experience of how memories and emotions are awakened within a rapidly transforming historic urban landscape. The outcomes materialized through digital maps and analog impressions within The Walking Journal, a specialized guiding tool developed for this project that captured participants' reflections, observations, and sensory engagements. This paper discusses the conceptual framework, methodologies, and outcomes of the workshop, addressing its pedagogical and research challenges, as well as its potential contributions to cross disciplinary thinking in architectural, urban and memory studies. It ultimately highlights the value of slow, embodied practices as vital research methods for deep understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics in rapidly changing material realities to counterbalance the pressures of urgency that characterize contemporary academic research.
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