Directions to Nowhere in Particular is a game of chance that alters the ways you sense, make, and navigate public space. Anyone can play. Simply go outside, pick a random prompt, and follow the directions for interacting with your surroundings.
Directions to Nowhere in Particular is a game of chance that alters the ways you sense, make, and navigate public space. Anyone can play. Simply go outside, pick a random prompt, and follow the directions for interacting with your surroundings. Perhaps you’ll feel something new or create something special that you’ll want to share.
As part of the Digital and/as Public Space Initiative, this project explores how people and places relate through software. It proposes ways of playing that might test and transform our conceptions of a public — directing our (mis)use of everyday digital tools to produce new socio-poetic moments. Hopefully, through this kind of play, we may catch a glimpse of a different future. The Directions are exercises in tying intimate relations within our networks. If we can attune ourselves closely to our ecologies, if we can also be more attentive to our digital affordances, we’re better primed to wonder what people and publics are capable of being and doing.
The prompts are also just for fun, a sometimes absurd move to tear away the wool of the everyday and notice what you notice. Hopefully, in that way, they can prompt us all to weave a more textured public fabric — online, offline, and all between the lines.
Directions to Nowhere is part of The Bentway’s Digital and/as Public Space Initiative, a collaboration between The Bentway and From Later with design by Nomadic Labs.
supporters
Balsam Foundation
Canada Council for the Arts
