The document discusses the concept of dérive, which involves dropping preconceived plans and allowing oneself to be drawn through environments by the attractions of the terrain and encounters found there. A dérive aims to study how environments and encounters affect one's emotions and behavior. It works best in urban settings with 1-3 people drifting without purpose over the course of a day, experiencing chance encounters. Psychogeography is defined as studying these precise impacts of geography on individuals.

2. How to break it down…
Dérive
Chance
Places and Spaces

3. Official Definition of Dérive:
“A technique of rapid passage
through varied ambiances. It
involves playful constructive
behavior and awareness of
psychogreographical effects, and
are thus quite different from the
classic notions of journey or stroll.”

4. What that said…Dérive
So Basically…..
Drop everything
and interact with
the area around
you.

5. Who can Participate and for how
long?
You can be alone.
However, it works best in groups of 2-3.
-These others would be at the same level
of awareness.
Average Duration: 1 day

6. Chance. What is it?
The unexpected or unplanned
occurrences during the dérive.
It is more effective when you dérive in
an urban environment.
It is least effective when wandering in
an open country.

7. Tadpoles
‘Tadpoles could be
considered more
spontaneously liberated
than the surrealists,
since they have the
advantage of being “as
stripped as possible of
intelligence, sociability
and sexuality,” and are
thus “truly independent
from one another”’

8. ‘ “Men can see nothing around them
that is not in their own image;
everything speaks to them of
themselves. Their very landscape is
alive.” ‘

9. Places and Spaces
Definition of Psychogeography:
“An approach to geography that emphasizes
playfulness and “drifting” around urban
environments”
“the study of the precise laws and specific
effects of the geographical environment,
consciously organized or not, on the
emotions and behavior of individuals”

10. What that said…
How our behaviors and emotions
respond to drifting in an urban
environment.

11. Urban Environments

12. Spatial Fields
Urban environments are the best because
there is a lot to respond to.
The spatial field may be limited or vague
depending on whether the goal is to study
the terrain or to emotionally disorient
oneself.

13. Spatial Fields continued…
In every case the spatial field depends on
the point of departure.
The point of departure is the residence of
the solo dériver or the meeting place
selected by a group
The exploration of a fixed spatial field entails
establishing bases and calculating directions
of entering that field.

14. You have
probably already
Dérived
When you…..Snuck into that place you weren’t
supposed to be.
Or went on an adventure without a destination.
These are all expressions of a more general
sensibility which if no different than that of a dérive.