Title: Start a “Get Lost!” walk
My example to my students as I asked them to create a system to get lost beyond simply wandering (there are some reasons we did this rather than just wandering without a system… but there are times when wandering without such a system would be generative as well). My example was to form a small group of 5-8 people, download an app that tracks your movement through GPS as a group (like Life 360) which will be used to find our way back to each other, get on our new UVX bus system (it is free for three years for everyone), ride it to the end of the line (about 5 km from where we are currently), everyone should form a circle with shoulders touching… facing outward, set your alarms for ten minutes and walk in a straight line as much as possible while dodging obstructions as best as you are able, when your alarm goes off stop where you are, photograph your feet on the ground, photograph directly ahead of you, and photograph the sky above. Take a screenshot of the location map of all your group on your app. Turn to the right, walk for 3 minutes and return to the center of your circle close to where you all began your walk… use your app to help you this time. Using your three photographs, create a diptych with your feet on the bottom third of the image, a band of looking ahead as the middle panel, and the sky on the top third of the image. All images can be standardized for each participant. The resulting images should be printed and formed into an exhibit in the round, placed accordingly in their “correct” position from where the “walker” created the image.
Each group of my beginning students actually created their own structure for getting lost and then returning with a proposal for an exhibition. Mine was simply an example, but I would love for a group to do this on a global scale.