How to Do a Dérive

Theory

Read the two Debord articles, “Theory of the Dérive” and “Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography.” They are short. Get them in your heads.
Reflect on the readings we have done for class so far. Have it in your heads, too.

Check out the first dérive map and find your starting point. If it’s in the middle of a building, move your point to the street.
Print a Field Papers Atlas of the area, more or less, that you’ll be walking in. You’ll need to turn in this paper atlas on the dérive due date.
Install the Derive App on your phone.

Get to your starting point as indicated on the map.
Turn off notifications, etc., on your phone.
Put your headphones in your bag.
Fire up the Derive App and start a new dérive. Follow the instructions it gives you
Notice what’s going on around you as well as inside you (like, your thoughts). Keep in mind the theory you read.
Take notes on your map, keeping track of where you’re walking.
Take general textual notes, too, though, again, about what you’re thinking and what you’re feeling/sensing (seeing, hearing, tasting, etc.)
Every few minutes, the app will let you pick a new card. Choose it, or keep following your current card until you think you’ve “finished” the task.
Keep this up for a while (an hour at least), until you think you’ve reached a point where you have a sense of the mediascape you’ve walked through.
A the end of the dérive, you should have, at the very least, your paper Field Papers Atlas marked with your path and handwritten notes about your dérive.

Clone the Dérive Archive project (clone url: https://github.com/nyscapes/derive-archive.git ).
Compile your notes and any photos, videos, or audio files you’ve recorded during the dérive together, and draft a markdown post in Atom. Include your name in the file name for the dérive, like “2018-02-03-moacir-first-derive.md.”
Follow the directions on the how to post your dérive report to learn how to collect the various points where your path goes in making the online map.
Include that path metadata in your dérive (the map won’t show in Markdown Preview in Atom).
Pull from GitHub.
Save, stage, commit, push.
Check out how your dérive looks.