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.

"I followed this lady who, at one point, stood in front of the chocolate display. She spent 10 minutes choosing which packs to pick up and then put them back on the shelf upside down. It was enlightening"

Zapping is an exercise in listening to people's conversations. It's not about listening to a single conversation, you have to switch from one to the other as quickly as possible, trying to write down only disconnected sentences.

"The weirdest question" is the exercise that marks the climax of this experience at the mall. To find out more, however, you must participate in one of the next releases (no spoilers)

Eventually, we'll look for the exit and leave the mall behind us. We can't turn around (like Orpheus) until we believe we're far enough away to fit the whole building into a photograph.

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.