I was assigned to create a derive for my play class.  A derive is where one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work, and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attraction of the terrain and encounters they find there.  Derives don't seem to work as well in open country, but tend to do better in an urban environment.  

One can derive alone, but a more objective method is to have several small groups which then cross check each other.  

The average duration of a derive is one day as defined as the period between to periods of sleep.  

The field of a derive can be precisely defined or vaguely delineated depending on wether one is trying to study a certain terrain or to emotionally disorient oneself.  In any case, the field of the derive depends upon the place of depart.  You can get only so far away in the time you have given for the derive.

One type of derive is the possible rendezvous in which the subject is invited to come alone to a certain place at a specific time.  Once the person gets there, no one is there to meet them or an unknown person has been given the same invitation.  In either case the subject does not know whom he is suppose to meet so he takes his time to study his surroundings.  

One of the greatest values of derive is the acknowledgement of the unseen borders that separate us from each other and the eventual breaking down of these borders.  

Below you will find an example of a very short derive I did with some friends around the restaurant Denny's.  My original plan was to walk around describing our surroundings to my  blind friend Courtney, but she wasn't there that night.  I am not quite sure that my friends took this seriously, however there were some good moments.  My favorite is "Where did that door come from?"  Hope you enjoy.