4 Apps That Get You Lost, So You Can Have Actual Experiences

Why is technology always about efficiency? These apps introduce a little something unexpected in your day and get you to really take in your surroundings.

Wanting to map the "psychogeography" of Paris in the 1940s, the Situationists--a prominent art collective at the time--came up with the concept of a dérive: "an unplanned tour through an urban landscape directed entirely by the feelings evoked in the individual by their surroundings." The idea was a response to rampant capitalism, as the artists saw it, which was leading people to live ever more routine lives, walking the same walks every day, and never following their senses. The concept was a way of reconnecting with the city, and understanding how certain areas evoked certain feelings in the individual.

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