Indeterminate Hikes +

Urban landscapes = sites of bio-cultural diversity & wild happenings!

Indeterminate Hikes+, a mobile media app created by EcoArtTech, transforms everyday landscapes into sites of bio-cultural diversity and wild happenings through a series of walking tours. IH+ re-appropriates smartphones, which are generally used for rapid communication and consumerism, and turns them into tools of environmental imagination and meditative wonder, renewing awareness of biological, cultural, and media ecologies and slowing participants down at the same time. The app works by importing the rhetoric of wilderness into virtually any place accessible by Google Maps and encouraging its users to treat these locales as spaces worthy of the attention accorded to sublime landscapes, such as canyons and waterfalls.