Experimental Walk

Experimental Walk
to rise some urban awareness

A theatre-game about the connection between sightseeing, selective attention and the new communication channels

You might have experienced after a long, focused sighseeing tour - when it comes to an end and you start your way home - it's not over yet. You stay focused and on your private journey after the guided tour.

The rised awareness-level of the sightseeing lasts longer than the tour itself and keeps the participants seeing sights even after the official program is over.

The Experimental Walk tour aims to re-produce this feeling of private sight-seeing - without famous buildings and historical ruins. We are making you feel like you are already over the famous stuff - and now we can get into the details of the city.

Being in a city often diverts attention from it's most important feature: the city itself. People live by using the city as a functional sequence of locations and routes - but these sequences overlap with each other thus creating a wide range caos - called Budapest. An average city-user doesn't have a glimpse into the others' ways and routines as everyone is heading somewhere specific to do something practical. However, we invite our tour's participants to stop being so specific and practical - so suddenly we can see all these coexistent sequences - in other words: people's lives happening right in front of us.

We drop a tiny screw into the constantly moving machinery of Budapest - and it stops for a moment. And in this very moment you must pay attention and notice as many things as possible - to have enough munition to remember. You will remember during a rough workday later that you are not alone in the city. All you can see will be useful sooner or later.

The constantly moving if the machinery of Filling up the screws Completely stop for a moment. In this very moment must pay attention and and notice as many things as possible.

The magical device to stop the city is: the walk.