The document discusses how people build personal transportation networks based on need, convenience and familiarity. It argues that purposefully exploring outside of these networks provides an opportunity to gain new perspectives and awareness. While navigation devices promote following routes passively, exploring unknown areas engages natural instincts and makes people more observant of their surroundings, allowing for unexpected discoveries and opportunities. The outline then covers topics like landmarks, different methods of navigation, psychogeography, the dérive technique of deriving, and examples of its application today.

1. Jenn Boggs
Thesis 1 - Prof. Tom Klinkowstein
March 29, 2013

2. Hypothesis
We build personal transportation networks defined by
need, convenience, and familiarity. Purposeful exploration outside of our
networks provides an opportunity to be enlightened due to a heighten sense
of awareness.
Navigation devices promote complacent following of a line on a
screen, taking our attention from our environment to the screen.
Exploration outside of our networks engages our natural instincts of anxiety
and survival making us more attentive and observant of our surroundings
allowing for the discovery of unexpected associations, new social and
professional opportunities, and develop authority in our community.

3. Outline
Orientation
Navigation
Psychogeography
– The Dérive
– Existing case studies
Design Experiment

4. Orientation
• Natural and man-made landmarks
– Sun – Home
– Stars – Work
– Oceans – High rise
– Rivers – Park
– Mountains – Well

5. Navigation
• Pre smart phones navigation driven by actions
– Right turn at Main St
• Post smart phone navigation
– Follow route on screen
• Checking habits
– “brief, repetitive inspection of dynamic content quickly accessible on the
device.” (Oulasvirta et al. 1)

6. Psychogeography
• "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the
geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the
emotions and behavior of individuals.”
- Guy Debord

7. The Dérive
• ”the dérive, a technique of rapid passage through varied
ambiences. Dérives involve playful-constructive behavior and
awareness of psychogeographical effects, and are thus quite
different from the classic notions of journey or stroll.”
- Guy Debord

8. The Dérive in Application
• Algorithmic walking
– Second Left
– First Right
– First Right
– Repeat

9. Psychogeography Today
• DODO Magazine
• Bay Area #photowalking
• Serendipitor

10. Design Experiment

11. Works Cited
• You Are Here by Colin Ellard
• The Situationist International: A User’s Guide by Simon Ford
• Change by Design by Time Brown
• Psychogeography: Disentangling The Modern Conundrum of Psyche
and Place by Will Self. Pictures by Ralph Steadman

12. Old Hypothesis
We build personal transportation networks defined by need, convenience and
familiarity in our communities. Purposeful exploration outside of our networks provides
an opportunity to be enlightened due to a heighten sense of awareness.
Despite living in an incredibly connected world where people regularly carry a GPS
enabled map there is a strong discomfort with being lost furthering our dependence
on directions and habits.
Exploration outside of our networks engages our natural instincts of anxiety and survival
making us more attentive of our surroundings allowing for the discovery of unexpected
associations, and new social and professional opportunities.