In the “possible rendezvous,” on the other hand, the element of exploration is minimal in comparison with that of behavioral disorientation. The subject is invited to come alone to a certain place at a specified time. He is freed from the bothersome obligations of the ordinary rendezvous since there is no one to wait for. But since this “possible rendezvous” has brought him without warning to a place he may or may not know, he observes the surroundings. It may be that the same spot has been specified for a “possible rendezvous” for someone else whose identity he has no way of knowing. Since he may never even have seen the other person before, he will be encouraged to start up conversations with various passersby. He may meet no one, or he may even by chance meet the person who has arranged the “possible rendezvous.” In any case, particularly if the time and place have been well chosen, his use of time will take an unexpected turn. He may even telephone someone else who doesn’t know where the first “possible rendezvous” has taken him, in order to ask for another one to be specified. One can see the virtually unlimited resources of this pastime.
– Theory of the dérive

(Source: bopsecrets.org)

In the “possible rendezvous,” on the other hand, the element of exploration is minimal in comparison with that of behavioral disorientation. The subject is invited to come alone to a certain place at a specified time. He is freed from the bothersome obligations of the ordinary rendezvous since there is no one to wait for. But since this “possible rendezvous” has brought him without warning to a place he may or may not know, he observes the surroundings. It may be that the same spot has been specified for a “possible rendezvous” for someone else whose identity he has no way of knowing. Since he may never even have seen the other person before, he will be encouraged to start up conversations with various passersby. He may meet no one, or he may even by chance meet the person who has arranged the “possible rendezvous.” In any case, particularly if the time and place have been well chosen, his use of time will take an unexpected turn. He may even telephone someone else who doesn’t know where the first “possible rendezvous” has taken him, in order to ask for another one to be specified. One can see the virtually unlimited resources of this pastime.
– Theory of the dérive

(Source: bopsecrets.org)

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The Society of Urban Naturalists {S.U.N.} is an international open collective of urban investigators dedicated to unravel the hidden relationships between nature, city and humanity.

Trough play, storytelling and conversations, S.U.N. deals with the same mysteries that natural and social sciences face in the urban ecosystems, engaging the audience in a reflexion about their place in the city.

Always looking for new methods and inventions to interrogate the city (and ourselves), sun has developed experimental toys using tokens found on-site and a set of rules to engage the public, protocols for observing human/nature interconnections and forms of creative observation that have made us aware of previously unrecognized forms of nature.

We aim to catalog and categorize our findings for contributing to the creation of a folksonomy that might help us think about, and react to our environments in a new way.

The first stage of the project evolved during the Interactivos?'10, Neighborhood Science at the Medialab-prado, thanks to Chirstina Krall, Carolina Gruffat, Ivonne Villamil and Héctor Cataño who built on a proposal by Emilio Zamudio.



La Sociedad de Naturalistas Urbanos {S.U.N.} es un colectivo internacional de investigadores urbanos dedicado a descubrir las relaciones ocultas entre naturaleza, ciudad y humanidad.

S.U.N. Se acerca a los mismos problemas que estudia la ciencia a través de las historias de los habitantes de la ciudad empleando diversos métodos y dispositivos inventados, ya sea para interactuar u observar las interacciones de los humanos con su ambiente urbano/natural.

Para este ciclo de investigaciones, la Sociedad eligió el Parque del Retiro como patio de juegos común y punto de partida. El parque es un híbrido por derecho propio, reuniendo los tres aspectos claves para la investigación y está convenientemente ubicado en las proximidades del Medialab Prado.

Los métodos y propuestas de la Sociedad abarcan la investigación a través de un tablero de juego usando formas simples encontradas en el lugar y un conjunto de reglas para involucrar a las personas del parque en una reflexión sobre las interconexiones naturaleza–ciudad–humanidad, un formato de investigación que mezcla la investigación detectivesca con la ficción real, y una concienzuda colección de híbridos encontrados haciendo nuevas asociaciones, catalogando y categorizando los hallazgos con la idea de contribuir a la folksonomía de una nueva naturaleza.

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