Situationist Drift
Situationist Drift is a structured group exercise for context sharing: it helps participants share useful personal or project context.
How to run it
- Explain that the activity consists of wandering through the urban space, allowing the environment to guide their movements, without a predetermined destination or route.
- Encourage participants to observe their emotions, interactions, and perceptions throughout the activity.
- Avoid following their usual or familiar routes.
- Let themselves be drawn to elements of the environment that catch their attention (colors, sounds, textures, people).
- Document their sensations, ideas, or discoveries through notes, drawings, or photographs.
- It is based on breaking away from habitual routines to observe, experience, and reflect on spaces from an emotional and subjective perspective.
- Create an immersive experience that provides new perspectives on the environment.
- Select the area: Choose an interesting urban location with diverse elements such as streets, plazas, parks, historical buildings, or markets.
- Prepare materials: Notebooks or journals to record observations, emotions, or reflections.
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Prompts to use +
Explain that the activity consists of wandering through the urban space, allowing the environment to guide their movements, without a predetermined destination or route.
It is based on breaking away from habitual routines to observe, experience, and reflect on spaces from an emotional and subjective perspective.
Create an immersive experience that provides new perspectives on the environment.
Select the area: Choose an interesting urban location with diverse elements such as streets, plazas, parks, historical buildings, or markets.
Prepare materials: Notebooks or journals to record observations, emotions, or reflections.
Run this with your AI assistant +
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Situationist Drift. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Explain that the activity consists of wandering through the urban space, allowing the environment to guide their movements, without a predetermined destination or route.; It is based on breaking away from habitual routines to observe, experience, and reflect on spaces from an emotional and subjective perspective.; Create an immersive experience that provides new perspectives on the environment.; Select the area: Choose an interesting urban location with diverse elements such as streets, plazas, parks, historical buildings, or markets.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Participatory Methods; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Participatory Methods.)
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- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
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