3.29.2013
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The document discusses how people build personal transportation networks based on need, convenience and familiarity. It argues that purposefully exploring outside of these networks provides an opportunity to gain new perspectives and awareness. While navigation devices promote following routes passively, exploring unknown areas engages natural instincts and makes people more observant of their surroundings, allowing for unexpected discoveries and opportunities. The outline then covers topics like landmarks, different methods of navigation, psychogeography, the dérive technique of deriving, and examples of its application today.
3.29.2013
- 1. Jenn Boggs Thesis 1 - Prof. Tom Klinkowstein March 29, 2013
- 2. Hypothesis We build personal transportation networks defined by need, convenience, and familiarity. Purposeful exploration outside of our networks provides an opportunity to be enlightened due to a heighten sense of awareness. Navigation devices promote complacent following of a line on a screen, taking our attention from our environment to the screen. Exploration outside of our networks engages our natural instincts of anxiety and survival making us more attentive and observant of our surroundings allowing for the discovery of unexpected associations, new social and professional opportunities, and develop authority in our community.
- 3. Outline Orientation Navigation Psychogeography – The Dérive – Existing case studies Design Experiment
- 4. Orientation • Natural and man-made landmarks – Sun – Home – Stars – Work – Oceans – High rise – Rivers – Park – Mountains – Well
- 5. Navigation • Pre smart phones navigation driven by actions – Right turn at Main St • Post smart phone navigation – Follow route on screen • Checking habits – “brief, repetitive inspection of dynamic content quickly accessible on the device.” (Oulasvirta et al. 1)
- 6. Psychogeography • "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.” - Guy Debord
- 7. The Dérive • ”the dérive, a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiences. Dérives involve playful-constructive behavior and awareness of psychogeographical effects, and are thus quite different from the classic notions of journey or stroll.” - Guy Debord
- 8. The Dérive in Application • Algorithmic walking – Second Left – First Right – First Right – Repeat
- 9. Psychogeography Today • DODO Magazine • Bay Area #photowalking • Serendipitor
- 11. Works Cited • You Are Here by Colin Ellard • The Situationist International: A User’s Guide by Simon Ford • Change by Design by Time Brown • Psychogeography: Disentangling The Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place by Will Self. Pictures by Ralph Steadman
- 12. Old Hypothesis We build personal transportation networks defined by need, convenience and familiarity in our communities. Purposeful exploration outside of our networks provides an opportunity to be enlightened due to a heighten sense of awareness. Despite living in an incredibly connected world where people regularly carry a GPS enabled map there is a strong discomfort with being lost furthering our dependence on directions and habits. Exploration outside of our networks engages our natural instincts of anxiety and survival making us more attentive of our surroundings allowing for the discovery of unexpected associations, and new social and professional opportunities.
Editor's Notes
- #7: Guy Debord– French, marxist theorist, writer, filmakers, and founder of The Situationist Internationala slightly stuffy term that's been applied to a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities. Psychogeography includes just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape.Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice. At Conflux, visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public gather for four days to explore their urban environment. Conflux was founded by Directors Christina Ray and David Mandl in 2003. David Darts is currently the festival’s Curatorial Director and the festival’s Curator this year is Angela Washko.Broken City Lab is an artist-led interdisciplinary collective and non-profit organization working to explore and unfold curiosities around locality, infrastructures, education, and creative practice leading towards civic change. Our projects, events, workshops, installations, and interventions offer an injection of disruptive creativity into a situation, surface, place, or community. These projects aim to connect various disciplines through research and social practice, generating works and interventionist tactics that adjust, critique, annotate, and re-imagine the cities that we encounter.Windsor, Ontario
- #8: In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there. Chance is a less important factor in this activity than one might think: from a dérive point of view cities have psychogeographical contours, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes that strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones.Theory of the theDérive1956Algorithmic walkingAWOL a guide for getting lost. It comes as a pack, consisting of a compass that doesn’t work, a simple poster and and a map that feature algorithmic walks, which always lovingly return you to your departure point – ensuring you can explore your surroundings worry-free.
- #10: DODO MagazineBay Area #photowalkingSerendipitor is an alternative navigation app for the iPhone.The app combines directions generated by a routing service (in this case, the Google Maps API) with instructions for action and movement inspired by Fluxus, Vito Acconci, and Yoko Ono, among others. Enter an origin and a destination, and the app maps a route between the two. You can increase or decrease the complexity of this route, depending how much time you have to play with. As you navigate your route, suggestions for possible actions to take at a given location appear within step-by-step directions designed to introduce small slippages and minor displacements within an otherwise optimized and efficient route. You can take photos along the way and, upon reaching your destination, send an email sharing with friends your route and the steps you took.