An App to Help You Lose Yourself in the City

Smart phones have fundamentally changed the way most people navigate around cities (oftentimes, as our Sarah Goodyear wrote earlier this year, with negative consequences for our collective grasp of “street smarts”). Smart phones can get you anywhere, from anywhere, by just about any route or transportation mode imaginable, effectively eliminating the lost art of getting lost in the city.

Now that you’re probably tethered to one of these things, it may be too much to ask of you to leave your smart phone in your pocket. But what if you used it to help you lose your way in the city, instead of finding it? This is the premise behind a new app from the Broken City Lab in Windsor, Ontario.