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Walking piece Marŝarto26
2026

Cool Vienna

Vienna is a wonderful subject for a deck of Dérive app task cards, and so, we now have a deck for Vienna.

Walking piece Marŝarto23
2022

Taking it easy

A physical deck of 52 task cards, walking prompts, integrated with Dérive app, developed together with students at MIT and inmates at a juvenile correctional facility.

Happened
walkingevent  

WALC Confluence 7 – in loving memory

2025-03-27 19:00
Online

End of year report and an intriguing photographic exhibition

The Walking Body 6
WALC
Happened
walkingevent SWS22  

30 Days of Prompts

1 - 30 Sep, 2022
Multiple locations

Participate in a 30-day long exploration, where you can dip in, and out, at your choosing. Get acquainted with your immediate environment and 'play the city'.

post 20 May, 2023

We’re hosting an Urban Exploration Workshop in Budapest on May 25-26

Together with Dérive app and Placcc, we're hosting a two-day urban exploration workshop in Budapest, on May 25 and 26.

video 2025  

Keep Walking Intently

A discussion between art critic and historian Lori Waxman, and WLC co-founder Babak Fakhamzadeh about Lori's book Keep Walking Intently, a seminal history of walking art in the Twentieth century.

video SWS21 2021  

Turning IP law against its intended purpose

Natalia Mount and Chris Byrnes lead a conversation about their collaborative project Performing Pro Arts COMMONS and what it means to occupy intellectual property through a sound walk or an open source application, such as the Dérive app.

Sound Walk City · prelude
Walking piece
2012

Dérive app

Dérive app is a modern implementation of the psychogeographic concept of the dérive, as developed by The Situationists. Dérive app is a mobile app, available for both Android and iOS, that presents a continuous stream of task cards that help you to discover, and uncover, an urban environment and get lost.

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post 95

Walking Against the Map: From location-aware AI to negotiated experience

I had the pleasure of being the closing speaker of WALKING – Denken in Bewegung 3, hosted by the Institute for Land Environment and Art, which ran between 11 and 13 September near Basel. I wasn’t able to attend in person, and spoke remotely. My presentation discussed the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in walking …

Babak Fakhamzadeh•
walking – Babak Fakhamzadeh
post 75

Immersed on the path of the gospel

Angela Reinders is based in Aachen, in Germany, and recently used Dérive app as part of a liturgical service. She’s providing a writeup of her experience. Getting hints and tasks to stop and move without even moving, does this make any sense? Sou...

Babak Fakhamzadeh•
Dérive app

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Babak Fakhamzadeh• BabakFakhamzadeh.com

Personal website of Babak Fakhamzadeh. Babak Fakhamzadeh is a creative technologist, digital artist, and researcher whose work focuses on location-based storytelling, walking art, and participatory media. With a background in mathematics and decades of experience in web and mobile development, he has worked internationally with NGOs, media organisations, and cultural institutions to build digital tools that connect people with place, history, and public space. His projects often combine technology, urban exploration, and narrative, using mobile media and interactive platforms to encourage people to engage with their surroundings in new ways. He is a co-founder of the global walking-arts platform walk · listen · create. Fakhamzadeh is also the creator and maintainer of the Dérive app, a mobile tool that encourages exploratory urban walking inspired by psychogeography. Across his artistic and technical work, he explores how digital tools can reshape how people experience cities, uncover hidden histories, and reclaim agency in navigating the urban environment.
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mindful walking

A form of mindful movement. It uses the everyday activity of walking as a mindfulness practice to help you become more aware of the sensations in your body. By tuning into your environment and the sensations in your body as you walk, it can help you to focus on the present moment.

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