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rel: Deambulation, Errance, Dérive Situationist International Anthology
The Dérive is an embodied research method used by the Situationist International to conscientiously engage in new experiences by wandering through an urban environment.
The Situationists describe the dérive as a means of walking meant to break capitalism’s monotony by introducing new experiences.
Ingold, “the landscape tells—or rather is—a story”
There are three types of walking practices:
- purposeful - a necessary mode of transportation towards a desired location
- discursive - a relational activity marked by participation with the environment through global-touch)
- conceptual - a performative, reflective and critically aware mode of walking intended to redefine the space and the relationship with it)
Through the act of walking new connections are made and re-made, physically and conceptually over time and through space. Public concerns and private fantasies, past events, and future imaginings, are brought into the here and now, into a relationship that is both sequential and simultaneous. Walking is a way of at once discovering and transforming the city
This walk is “an exploration of the deserted places of my memory” (De Certeau)