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 Indeterminate Hikes

Indeterminate Hikes involves a custom smartphone app that guides participants on urban hikes & encourages them to navigate, question, and document the possibilities of hybrid ecology—spaces for “nature” or wildness—in a globalized, urban space. Users assess their approximate coordinates in relation to "Lookouts" embedded within IH maps that indicate points in which the merger of ecologies of the social, psychic, & environmental may be experienced. Indeterminate Hikers are encouraged to pause for a minimum of 5 min. or 30 breaths at each lookout and then capture / upload images of their ecological experiences to the IH site. Images are archived in a database according to each lookout locations and made available for all to consider. ecoarttech will lead an Indeterminate Hike that functions as a performative, in-the-field workshop to cultivate conversations of nature, wildness, & wilderness as well as strategies for sustainability within cosmopolitan, digitally networked environments.