Drifts' Cognitive maps
Drifts' Cognitive maps
I asked the participants to focus only on some details of the surroundings and to draw them quickly. I then asked them to give names to those signs on the paper once they got home, maybe the next day.
Christmas lights exercise
I organized a psychogeographic walk on the evening of Christmas day.
We reflected on the meaning of conformity, tradition (which has the same etymology as the word treason) and ostentation.
NON-PLACES TOUR (lost in the mall)
This drift happens simultaneously in different malls. Each participant goes to the nearest shopping centre at the established time. The experience increases tension and discomfort levels leading up to a final stress-releasing exercise.
WHERE ARE YOU?
Topology exercises. We ask passersby to draw a map to get us somewhere. Then we interpret the signs, especially the difference between what is lost and what is kept in the graphic description.