Belfast meets Delft: Derive - Exploring walking as an artistic practice

During this week we have a group of students from Queens University Belfast, ‘Streetspace studio’ visiting our faculty and we have the opportunity to carry out a workshop together. The workshop applies the technique of the ‘derive’ - using walking as artistic practice for exploring places and their qualities.

Guy Debord established the Situationist method of the dérive (drifting) as a playful technique for wandering through cities without the usual motives for movement (work or leisure activities), but instead the attractions of the terrain, with its “psycho-geographic” effects. (credit: Walk Ways catalog, via https://teaching.ellenmueller.com).

We will start with a short intro lecture at 9:30 in room T. Afterwards, we will make teams of 2-3, mixed Belfast and TUD students, and you have the day to explore together, following one of the above-mentioned options of the derive. You transform the outcome of your exploration into a poem, map, song, series of drawings – a performance of your choice, which you present together with your group during the drinks starting at 18:00.

We will conclude the day with drinks at the restaurant ‘Huzar’ , at 18:00.