Creative applications of biographical research: time–space interactions in walking biographical methods

What are the challenges for theorising, experiencing and doing biographical research in post-pandemic time, a time that was characterised by social, physical/material distancing, isolation and, for some, ruptures to the biographical trajectory? Physical distancing altered and narrowed the nature of space/time of social interactions; it brought billions of people to interact via screens, while some people reconnected with nature and the natural world. What specific biographical research method can inform a sense of our past, present and possible futures and their interconnections? In this chapter we address these questions by focusing upon theorising, experiencing and imagining the relationships between biographical research, space and time in pandemic times; the importance of revisiting biographical theories in relation to the reconfiguring of temporalities/time and the meanings of ‘future’. We provide examples from the use of the walking interview biographical method (WIBM), which demonstrate the benefits of the WIBM as the creative combination of sensory experiences of storytelling with sensory immediacy of the visual/performative experience of walking, that opens up a discursive space, where embodied knowledge and experience are shared in post-pandemic times.