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post Dérive app 21 May, 2025

A deck for Budapest

A deck of 40 cards, specifically designed for Budapest, taking into account the city’s unique history, architecture, culture, and cuisine.

40
Budapest, Hungary
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Dérive app

Dérive is a mobile application designed to encourage exploratory walking through cities using playful prompts and chance-based instructions. Inspired by the Situationist concept of the dérive, a method of drifting through urban environments to experience their psychological and social effects, the app nudges users to move through places in unfamiliar ways rather than following conventional routes. Instead of maps or predefined routes, the app presents users with “task cards” that propose actions, observations, or small interventions in the surrounding environment. These prompts might ask users to follow a particular sound, look for overlooked details, interact with strangers, or reinterpret the built landscape. By introducing randomness and curiosity into walking, the app transforms everyday urban movement into a creative and reflective practice that reveals hidden histories, spatial patterns, and social dynamics. Dérive is used by artists, educators, and curious pedestrians alike to explore cities from new perspectives. It functions both as a personal exploration tool and as a platform for curated “decks” of task cards created by artists, researchers, or communities. Through these decks, the app supports workshops, participatory art projects, and psychogeographic experiments that invite participants to question how cities are structured and how people move through them.
Babak Fakhamzadeh
Platforms

deck

Collection · 4 items

decks

Collection · 9 items

Regions

Budapest

City · 12 items

Hungary

Country · 1 sub-regions · 19 items

GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

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