the practice of exploring the urban environment while being
led by curiosity and a paused sense of time and place. While it is important to let your senses absorb the spaces around you, it is equally, if not more important to find yourself in new spaces, spaces stumbled upon by chance; paying
attention to the smaller details, the lost objects, the signage, the fragments that
make walking a reward in itself, with a slower
pace and an increased opportunity to revel in the simple pleasures of things. A sense of wander/wonder is essential to find the simplicity in urban living.
The practice of psychogeography, which in many ways is similar to the activities engaged in by the flâneur is nostalgic on some level; for a
time when the pace of life in the city was slower and
one could frequently take the
time to absorb the details of the city...to drift.