I’ve been doing research on current methods of psychogeography, and this may be one of the many answers to Colleen Macklin’s question: where is the cool shit?
To start off, the Conflux Festival is an “art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space” right here in New York City, and this led me to many great places and people, such as Elizabeth Streb, who heads up a project called SLAM. In an interview with Streb, she refers to the performers/dancers as “method engineers” and talks about their process of looking at problems and then figuring out the “how” of it. By constantly using adverbs (when, where, how, what), they look at basic questions of movement. Here is a great video that includes part of a presentation and an interview Streb did at the Conflux festival:
I read about the Urban Disorientation Game as well as Pete Baldes and Marc Horowitz’s road trip across the United States from LA to Richmond using Google Maps. Here is a great video discussion about the project, called Google Map Road Trip:
Also looked at the ReMAP project which looks to provide a playful way of exploring satellite maps by appropriating images and remaking them with your own imagery.