The Walls Symposium defines "wall" in the broadest possible sense. Not only physical walls but also metaphysical and metaphorical walls. Borders, fences, hedges, edges, limits, divisions. Where there are walls there are also gates, doors and windows. Walls can be built, torn down, climbed, breached. Walls have ears; there's a "fly on the wall." People can be inside the wall, outside the wall, on the wall, up against the wall, driven up the wall, hit the wall, beat their heads against walls. Walls can divide; walls can protect.

To help spark our creative and critical thinking, in this section of the Walls Symposium Web site we will periodically post "food for thought" about walls:

Definitions and etymology
107 Poems about walls
Quotations about walls
Songs About walls
Videos About walls
Some Famous Walls
Where Birds Don't Fly, From Thomas Friedman, "Hot, Flat and Crowded."
Excerpt from "City Walls: The Urban Enciente in Global Perspective" James D. Tracy, editor.
Adademic papers about walls
Wall of the Day Archives