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SWS26 2025

ohm – the infinite dérive

A podcast about the sounds of, and against, gentrification in Berlin-Kreuzberg.Created in the out.cast podcast workshop "construction and control" by studio lärm at the FHXB district museum Berlin.

Curated news New 13 Jun, 2026

Play ‘Liminal Bingo,’ Pat Perry’s Participatory Photo Treasure Hunt — Colossal

Pat Perry recently launched “Liminal Bingo,” a communal photo hunt that asks participants to snap images of the mundane and quirky. Source: Play ‘Liminal Bingo,’ Pat Perry’s Participatory Photo Treasure Hunt — Colossal

Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus

Lori Waxman
Happened
 

WALC Online Course Session 9 – Art of Mapping and Counter-Mapping

2026-05-23 07:30
Online

Focusing on maps as artistic and cultural tools, the session analyses how mapping and counter-mapping shape perception, experience and power.

WALC Course
WALC
Sound walk
SWS21 2021

sloopwild

‘sloopwild’ is a site-specific walking project created for the UNFIX Festival 2021, inviting participants to meander and drift without a map along the edges of Kent. It emphasizes listening to environmental sounds and experiencing boundaries through recorded solo walks called sloops.

Curated news 14 Dec, 2020

KISS II Microfest: Psychogeography in Kunming – WenLan

A report of the 2nd KISS Microfest, a dérive and performance event organized by the Kunming International Situationist Society. Source: KISS II Microfest: Psychogeography in Kunming – WenLan

Curated news 20 Feb, 2024

The art of ‘getting lost’: how re-discovering your city can be an antidote to capitalism

‘Situationists’ believe the physical spaces around us, and how we interact with them, has a significant impact on how we feel. Source: The art of ‘getting lost’: how re-discovering your city can be an antidote to capitalism

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From Streets to Screens: Resisting the Commercialisation of Movement

I had the pleasure of presenting at WALKING – Thinking in Motion, “A transdisciplinary symposium on walking as an artistic practice, spatial experience, and epistemic method in the spirit of Lucius Burckhardt”, by the Swiss Institute for Land and Environmental Art.  Being based in Brazil, I couldn’t justify the time or cost to hop across …

Babak Fakhamzadeh
anitabacic.blog 95

Unravelling

“Unravelling” – an experimental walk using drawings to guide walkers of Bang Rak, Bangkok (TH). A treasure hunt and choose your own adventure story experience. 2 walks, 2 unconventional maps and 2 starting points in Bang Rak. Non-digital mapping devices were given to participants to encourage a slowing down to “uncover” the area. “Unravelling” encouraged the walker to wind down by not using mobile devices, …

procrastanita
THE LRM 95

June 2025 First Sunday

Dear loiterers Its First Sunday this Sunday and so time for us to wander together once again. The LRM will be gathering on Sunday June 1st at 2pm outside The Peoples History Museum, corner of Left Bank and Bridge Street M3 3ER.  We will go for a comm...

THE LRM
THE LRM 90

September and October 2024 First Sunday

Dear Loiterers  Its First Sunday, this Sunday – and blimey, its September already! We will meet for a wander at 2pm this Sunday 1st September outside Whitworth Art Gallery. It’s somewhat ridiculous but we have never actually started there before – o...

THE LRM

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driftingspace

The website Drifting Space is a digital platform dedicated to exploring urban environments through the practice of psychogeography and drifting, or dérive. It presents an evolving collection of essays, reflections, and visual documentation focused on the relationships between people, space, and place. The content frequently engages with themes of walking as a mode of artistic and spatial investigation, mapping the emotional and social dimensions of everyday urban landscapes. The site highlights projects and writings that examine the impact of architecture, infrastructure, and social dynamics on mobility and perception within the city. It draws upon theories from geography, sociology, and contemporary art to deepen understanding of how urban spaces are experienced and transformed by the act of moving through them. Overall, Drifting Space functions as a resource for both practitioners and scholars interested in the intersection of walking practices and cultural geography.
Organisations

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
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fit-stramp

A footstep: I widna geng a fitstramp owre da door efter her.

Added by Janette Kerr
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