Category: decks

Come create at the Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography
Derive Day coincides with the Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography at Heritage Quay in Huddersfield on September 9. Join Dérive app in creating a deck of task cards for the occasion. And, figure out who the Young Men’s Mental Improvement Society were.

Come try the croissants in Poznań
Karolina and Ania Szarkowicz give us a new European deck of task cards, for the Polish city of Poznań. Amongst the oldest and largest cities in Poland, Poznań is known for its renaissance old town, its dialect, and the traditional Saint Martin’s croissants. You should try them out.

You are the target… audience, in Oakland
Pro Arts Gallery successfully wrapped up its two month program of The New Situationists. During this period, Dérive app and Pro Arts worked on creating a deck of task cards for Oakland, California, home of Pro Arts, which now is available to the general public.

First custom deck available for Olomouc, Czechia
Not even for a week has it been possible to create your own custom deck of task cards, using Dérive app’s latest release, and already the first full deck is seeing the light of day. Created for Olomouc, in the Czech Republic, the deck is about discovering and exploring local and regional business enterprises.

Create and share your own decks of task cards
As of today, Dérive app now lets you create your own decks of cards and share them with others. Collaborate on decks by allowing others to submit cards and artwork, and by having your contributors vote on what are the best submissions.

Rio de Janeiro now has its own deck
Just in time for Carnival, and to celebrate the release of our iOS app, Dérive app now has a location specific deck for Rio de Janeiro.

A dérive to marriage
In early October 2015, Dérive app, a mobile app to get lost in your city, was used for a marriage proposal by South African Chantelle de Lange. This is her story.

Jo’burg workshop creates new deck for the city
We’ve just finished a successful workshop in Johannesburg, in collaboration with the Maboneng Precinct. Besides a wonderful two days in downtown Jo’burg, the tangible result has been a deck of cards, specifically designed for meandering around Johannesburg, and to be used within Dérive app.

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. The two day workshop was run by Eduardo Cachucho and Babak Fakhamzadeh, the creators of Dérive app, as well as Dale Hudson and Pascal Menoret from NYU Abu Dhabi.

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! The deck includes 30 cards. Here is a small preview of the deck. To see them all, fire up Dérive app.

New dérive pack: New York City
We are happy to announce a new dérive pack: New York City This year New York City celebrates 110 years of sky scraper building. The Flatiron Building, completed in 1902, is the first ‘sky scraper’ to mark its skyline, at 22 storeys it’s a rather impressive 110 year old building.