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Directions to Nowhere in Particular - e-flux Agenda

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Recently launched to the public, Directions to Nowhere in Particular is a creative platform that alters the ways you sense, make, and navigate public space. A joint project from The Bentway—a public space, and cultural programmer, located underneath a downtown expressway in Toronto—and From Later—a Toronto-based foresight studio—the participatory web-based platform explores how people and places relate, and form publics, through everyday software. The platform contains over 60 creative prompts that challenge people to use technology to unlock layers of urban space they might usually ignore, cuing attention to subtle sounds, sights, and smells that are often overlooked. Many of the prompts playfully direct participants to (mis)use digital tools to produce new kinds of socio-poetic moments. Play itself becomes a technology for testing and transforming our very conceptions of a public. In the process, people will give new names to areas and objects, invent location-specific stories, ascri

More Less Participants Lauren Lee McCarthy Canada Council for the Arts Share Email Facebook Twitter Copy Link Link Copied! Related See more related e - flux Agenda Subscribe Directions to Nowhere in Particular The Bentway Directions to Nowhere in Particular, 2021. Design: Nomadic Labs. Bianca Weeko Martin, Directions to Nowhere in Particular. Bianca Weeko Martin, Directions to Nowhere in Particular. Hombre McSteez, Directions to Nowhere in Particular. Directions to Nowhere in Particular, 2021. Design: Nomadic Labs. July 8, 2021 Share Email Facebook Twitter Copy Link Link Copied! Directions to

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