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.
Articles
A pleasant exploration of Jogja
Indonesia is the second country this year which I had not visited before. We flew in to Yogyakarta, from Kuala Lumpur. YIA, the new airport of ‘Jogja’, was opened in early 2020, was then open for three months, to close again because of COVID. In 2022 it was opened permanently. A whole 50k from town, …
Drifting Through Empire: From the Situationists to Big Tech and the Dérive
Next week, Saturday November 29, I’m hosting a Dérive app workshop in Yogyakarta, together with Kunci and Jalan Gembira. You can still sign up, check the announcement for the signup link. In preparation, we kicked off with an online presentation, to ease participants into concepts surrounding the dérive, specifically its origin with the Situationists, and …
In an attempt to cross borders
An important reason for this trip halfway around the world was for me to stop in the tiny village of Camallera, in northern Catalunya, for a three day meeting connected to a European collaborative project which the NGO I co-founded is involved in. Here, the bakery only opens at 9am, everyone greets each other on …
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 …

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