Meditating on the research work developed in the city of Lisbon and on the experience of workshop realised in Bologna, we question the significance of the act of walking as a functional vector of translation from A to B is questioned and eventually subverted. Walking is rather understood as tactic of navigation within the urban fabric – whether it be built, human, or more-than-human – that draws from principles of practicality and efficiency, but also creativity, rebellion and exploration. Contextually the idea of desire path emerges: it returns the power to groove visible and invisible transient trails to us – pedestrian users of the city – while also enhancing the visibility of the individual body which suggests paths that can be retreaded by others. The concept of desire path takes different names in different cultures as it describes the same practices with unique undertones in each context. Specially it mobilises a human rhizome that ruptures the geometry of space in the city and redesigns it from the lowness of micro-spaces of the quotidian, as opposed to the top view of cartographic urban plans. The reading of desire paths therefore offers a prism of possibilities for discussing how space is materially moulded, who decides its meanings and rules, and what kaleidoscope of possibilities exists within it.