Reading Response #2

I chose the Wrights & Sites article “A Manifesto for a New Walking Culture: ‘dealing with the city’. I picked this article over the others because it relates to drift strategries, an issue that I frequently have problems with, drift strategies. This article put forth an interesting strategy involving a deck of cards. More importantly, it identifies the walker as an artist and the environment a compositional catalyst.
The main focus of this article was to put a new perspective on drift strategies. The article claims that there are two main kinds of drifts, functional or passive. A functional drift is when the soundwalk has a goal in mind such as going to a store or work. A passive drift is when the drifter is walking without a particular destination in mind and the method of choosing a path is usually random. These two styles has something in common , in both of them the drifter is not meant to interact with the environment around them and simply observe it as it is. The Wrights & Sights article proposes a new concept in which in the course of a drift, the drifter instead engages their environment and changes it, usually while involving the arts in some way.
I can relate this article to my life because, as previously stated, I have often times have problems with my drift strategies. Many times my drift strategies are afterthoughts that I come up with either spontaneously or it is heavily influenced on the conditions under which I start my drift. Seeing this new concept of a drift strategy could be applied on my next drift.