Bartoletti, Sacchetti and Mariani treat walking as a situated epistemic relation rather than a transparent route to authenticity. Their ethnography of the Prati di Caprara urban forest in Bologna shows how movement through spontaneous urban nature recalibrates sensory attention, orientation and the relation between city and wilderness. The paper’s iconic operation is “controlled getting lost”: temporary disorientation becomes analytically productive because it exposes how place is known through recursive acts of orientation, displacement and reorientation. The go-along method is deliberately non-directive and minimally pre-structured, enabling detours, surprise and contradiction to enter the research process rather than be filtered out by a rigid itinerary. Crucially, the authors refuse the claim that walking automatically produces privileged access to experience; its value depends on context, attunement and the combination of routes, notes, audio and observation. The work bridges sensory ethnography, mobilities research and urban political ecology by making movement itself part of the object and condition of knowledge.