Notes on Geneva. A Walk.

An iPhone-aided dérive attempting to refute the idea that Geneva is ‘the Canberra of Switzerland’

As noted previously, I managed to escape for a brisk walk around Geneva during the Lift09 conference, heading from the conference venue down towards the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO) and back. (Ed. This piece was originally published at cityofsound.com on July 25, 2009.)

This was the first time I’d done such a drift aided by the iPhone’s GPS+Google-driven ‘certainties’, and it worked well, enabling me to embark in broadly the right direction, veering off aimlessly onto the most interesting-looking streets whilst reacquainting myself with the optimum route every now and then; a kind of waggle dance back and forth, following invisible satellites.