Jo’burg workshop creates new deck for the city

We've just finished a successful workshop in Johannesburg, in collaboration with the Maboneng Precinct.

Johannesburg Dérive app Workshop

Date: 13-14 April 2013 | Time: 10am-4pm | Venue: Maboneng Precinct We are very excited to be carrying out the second Dérive app workshop, this time in Johannesburg, South Africa. This, in collaboration with the Maboneng Precinct situated on the eastern edge of Africa’s richest and 4th largest city.

The Common – Doing a Dérive; or, Walking 2.0

Jennifer Acker has written an intriguing piece about the Abu Dhabi workshop held at NYU Abu Dhabi. Do hop over the The Common to read her in-depth tale of dériving in an “oil-rich, start-up city“

Ithaca and FLEFF Workshops

Over the last week we have been conducting our first all-digital workshop with Ithaca College and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), around creating a dérive deck for Ithaca and more specifically for some of the themes connected to the film festival this year.

Dérive Day 2013 – Tales from Madrid, Luxembourg, Stockholm.

The following three reportages of Dérive Day 2013 were kindly compiled by Veronica Yow, who also headed up the organisation of the one-day-marathon urban exploration event, that had 60 users in 23 locations worldwide using Dérive app to explore their urban surroundings in new ways.

Dérive Day 2013 – Tales from Kampala, Toronto and Cairo

The following three reportages of Dérive Day 2013 were kindly compiled by Veronica Yow, who also headed up the organisation of the one-day-marathon urban exploration event, that had 60 users in 23 locations worldwide using Dérive app to explore their urban surroundings in new ways.

Abu Dhabi workshop

On the 1st and 2nd of February 2013 Dérive app held its first workshop in collaboration with New York University Abu Dhabi.

Dérive Day – What happened

We are ecstatic with the response to the call to have a world wide Dérive Day. 23 dérives totalling 43km were recorded in Brussels, Paris, New York, Kampala, Singapore, Toronto, among others.

Dérive Day How To

Here’s a sweet visual overview of the hows and whats for Dérive Day.

Kampala dérive deck now available

With Dérive app representing Uganda at the World Summit Award in the m-Tourism and Culture category, how can we not have a location-specific deck for Kampala? Indeed. With temperatures pretty much the same every day of the year, Kampala is reliable enough to walk around in. If you can stand the high chance of rain during

San Francisco Dérive Deck

Yes we visited San Francisco and were so inspired by its walkability that well... we just had to put together a Dérive deck for it!

New dérive pack: New York City

We are happy to announce a new dérive pack: New York City