Open dérive
No destination and no prescribed route. A bounded invitation lets attention, encounter and the place itself alter the walk.
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Field programmes · walking · collective publishing
Workshops
Bespoke ways to walk, attend, compare and publish a place together.
One practice, many editionsA reusable method meets a specific place, group, access plan and publication question.
No direction does not mean no care.
Derive workshops are psychogeographic field programmes. They can be genuinely open-ended, carefully guided, or designed so everyone compares several ways of attending to the same place.
The structure is bespoke, but the floor is consistent: place research, a real route recce, equivalent ways to participate, explicit choices about each kind of capture, and no automatic public map.
Choose the form
A walk may be open, guided or comparative
Guided walk
A facilitator offers situated facts, questions and periods of silence. Guidance frames attention without turning the place into a checklist.
Comparative walk
One group experiences several modes in a shared sequence, or staffed groups rotate through them. The result is reflection, not a winner.
Bespoke, not detached
How a Derive edition is made
- 01Question
Name what the walk is trying to notice, unsettle or compare.
- 02Place
Research the site, walk it in person, and record access, boundaries and uncertainties.
- 03Field score
Compose the timing, prompts, guidance and equivalent ways to participate.
- 04Publication
Decide what remains local, what enters the working wall, and what may become a FoldZine or Mapzine.
What the technology does
A field tool, not a tracking condition
A participant can walk and keep everything on their device. Joining a digital workshop is explicit; notes, feelings, media markers and exact location are separate choices. Photograph and audio files stay local in the current pilot.
The facilitator wall is private and temporary. A FoldZine is made from the participant's archive. After a local privacy review, Derive can download a structured eight-panel Mapzine recipe. Public Mapzine file import is not available yet, so this remains a hand-off artefact rather than an automatic transfer. Withheld places and contradictory accounts remain part of the publication.
Edition register
Current workshops
Commission an edition
Bring a place, a group and a live question
A useful first brief names the place, who is invited, the time available, access requirements, and whether the outcome is private reflection, a collective map, a printed edition, or a public programme. Derive then versions the method and evidence for that commission instead of cloning an event page.
Discuss a workshop