Audio Walk through Geneva

Are you afraid of the internet? An audio guide leads you through a walk in Geneva. Five stops highlight how fundamentally digital technologies are changing our lives. The impact no longer ends when we close the laptop.

The internet as infrastructure

Digitalization has a fundamental impact on our lives: how we stay in touch with friends, how we search for and find information, how we organize ourselves and how we work. As a result, digital technologies are integrating into our everyday lives and the spheres of online and offline are becoming increasingly blurred. Navigating the hybrid present requires a fundamental and practical understanding of how algorithms, artificial intelligence and platforms work.

For the Edgelands Institute, Dezentrum developed an audio walk through Geneva with five stops of six minutes each. The walk aims to explain complex phenomena of digitalization in a simple way and to show the effects practically. Site-specific examples and comparisons were therefore used in all stops of the audio walk. Audio makes the digital effects in the city and in people's everyday lives audible and puts them into context.

The starting point for the audio walk was a diagnostic report by the Edgelands Institute on security, surveillance and digital technologies in Geneva. The Edgelands Institute investigates the increasing digitalization of security in cities and researches models of urban coexistence. Their pop-up institute has already been in Medellín and will open its doors in Nairobi next year.

At the launch during the AIIA Festival (art et intelligence artificielle) there were two guided walks followed by a panel discussion.

A 60-minute walk in search for answers

The Audio-Walk is available in English and French. It can be enjoyed either with an interactive map, which automatically plays the according audio during the walk, or by individually listening to each station separately.

Map French Stations French

Map English Stations English

The audio walk can be listened to as individual stations or with an interactive map.

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