The Atlas gathers the cartographies that come out of the dérives.
They are notconventional maps but narrative ones: each tries to render, in a new way, the lived experience of crossing a particular place at a particular moment — itshere and now.
Every map begins as data.
Walkography’s semi-automatic pipeline turns what a into a first, raw map. That map is the starting point, not the result: it is then read, interpreted and worked by hand, corrected where memory asksfor it, layered with notes, sketches and accounts, until it becomes legibleand eloquent.
Each cartography is singular, because it makes the specificity of one dérive explicit its place, its moment, its conditions, as personal as they are environmental. But they share a common method and a common visual grammar, so that, dérive against dérive, one day the same territory might be read by different people and different collectives, and become a collective qualitative analysis.
Their purpose is not to be the definitive portrait of a place. It is to open questions, to surface what would otherwise stay invisible, and so to become tools for a deeper, situated understanding of a territory and from there, for transforming it more consciously.
This is the first walkography recorded with the WKd_01.01 device. It traces a familiar daily path: the walk from my home to the office.
WKa_00 is the walkography that best describeswhat the project is about. Itrecords a walk through the Oma forest (Kortezubi, Bizkaia) on 26/03/2016.