Cues for Losing Direction

Cues for Losing Direction is a work made in the incubator of the Social Software Cycle 2 project space, led by Casey Reas. The deck is a recombinant walk generator responding to my feelings about walking in Los Angeles: the situational, ecological, and untapped awareness while walking through my neighborhood. Heavily inspired by Guy Debord's notion of the Derivé, and ambling practices from the Situationists, the deck is intended to allow chance to forge the path, instead asking the user to pay attention to features of their environment they may not otherwise.

Rooted in a foraging practice, the project seeks to bring the qualities of searching and scavenging to aimless walking, qualities essential to building a relationship with your environment.

Here is a sequence where the cards are pulled in a random order, leading to a unique walk out of thousands of routes