In philosophy, a Dérive is a French concept meaning an aimless walk, probably through city streets, that follows the whim of the moment. It is sometimes translated as a drift.
French philosopher and Situationist Guy Debord used this idea to try and convince readers to revisit the way they looked at urban spaces. Rather than being prisoners to their daily route and routine, living in a complex city but treading the same path every day, he urged people to follow their emotions and to look at urban situations in a radical new way. This led to the notion that most of our cities were so thoroughly unpleasant because they were designed in a way that either ignored their emotional impact on people, or indeed tried to control people through their very design. The basic premise of the idea is for people to explore their environment ("psychogeography") without preconceptions, to understand their location, and therefore their existence.
------14.9.2007
We left the cold north following an arrow in the sky, a flock of geese travelling.
The same night we saw the birds, Teemu saw on tv a children´s program in which some geese that moved to Paris. Hence thatwards! It´s our mission now to find geese in Paris and go feed them bread.
We arrived last night in Amsterdam, after one cheap flight to Bremen, Germany, one night in a tent somewhere by the road and three hitch-hiked rides. We´ll be happily lost here until it gets too cold again for us travelling birds.
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