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The optional-skills copy was still the v1.0.0 constraint-dispatch skill (SKILL.md + full-prompt-library.md only). This brings it up to the current tool: a situation-routed library of 22 named ideation methods drawn from working artists, scientists, designers, and writers. SKILL.md becomes a 4-step router (extract PHASE/DOMAIN/SPECIFICITY signals → apply overrides → route phase-then-domain → resolve ambiguity), with anti-slop operating rules and an anti-default check. Adds: - 22 method files under references/methods/ — oblique-strategies (Eno/Schmidt), oulipo, scamper, lateral-provocations (de Bono), triz (Altshuller), leverage-points (Meadows), pattern-languages (Alexander), compression-progress (Schmidhuber), analogy-and-blending, pataphysics, first-principles, polya, biomimicry, volume-generation, creative-discipline, premortem-and-inversion, defamiliarization, derive-and-mapping, affinity-diagrams, jobs-to-be-done, story-skeletons, chance-and-remix. Each: when/when-not, the actual cards/principles/operators, a procedure, a worked example, anti-slop notes. - references/method-catalog.md (index + when-to-use), heuristics.md (extended decision tree), anti-slop.md (rules applied to every output), exercises.md (time-boxed exercises). - full-prompt-library.md restructured into domain-affinity sections (general / software / physical / social / lists) so the no-direction default isn't developer-biased. Frontmatter: name aligned to directory slug (creative-ideation, folding in the fix from #18084); version 2.0.0→2.1.0; platforms field preserved. Original wttdotm-derived constraint dispatch is kept as the default path. Supersedes #19295 (which targeted the pre-move skills/ path). Co-authored-by: SHL0MS <SHL0MS@users.noreply.github.com>
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# Dérive and Mapping
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Three traditions of *attentive movement through territory* as ideation:
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- **Situationist dérive** — Guy Debord, *Théorie de la dérive* (1958). Drift through a city, displacing productive uses with attentive wandering.
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- **Kevin Lynch's cognitive mapping** — *The Image of the City* (1960). Five-element vocabulary for mental maps: paths, edges, districts, nodes, landmarks.
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- **Gaston Bachelard's topoanalysis** — *La Poétique de l'espace* (1958). Phenomenological reading of intimate spaces.
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## When to use
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- Entering an unfamiliar field — drift before forming hypotheses
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- Picking a research subject or thesis topic
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- Major life decision (where to live, what to study) — visit the territories
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- Site-specific creative work
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- Refreshing your own work — small-space artist date
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## Don't use when
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- Time pressure (drift is slow)
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- Goal-directed search (drift is for *not knowing what you're looking for*)
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- Group sizes that make drift into tourism (works solo or 2–3)
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- Using "dérive" as alibi for procrastination (real dérive has discipline)
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## Single-day urban dérive
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1. Pick a territory you don't know — an unfamiliar neighborhood, a long bus route, two hours' walk in a direction you don't usually go.
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2. Drop other agenda for the period. Phone away.
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3. Walk where attention pulls. No destination. Follow what calls; turn from what repels.
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4. Note specifics: what's on the walls? What does the neighborhood smell like? What stores survive here? Who's in this neighborhood at this hour?
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5. End-of-day: draw a Lynch-style map.
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6. Note surprises.
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## Lynch's vocabulary (use to structure dérive output)
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- **Paths** — channels you move along (streets, walkways, transit, canals).
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- **Edges** — linear boundaries that aren't paths (shorelines, walls, river edges).
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- **Districts** — sections with common identifying character.
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- **Nodes** — strategic spots where movements converge (junctions, plazas, transit hubs).
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- **Landmarks** — point references identifiable from a distance, used for orientation.
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After drifting:
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- Map *your* paths, not the official ones.
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- Where were the edges? What did each edge mean — division, transition, prohibition?
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- Which districts did you cross? How did you know you'd entered one?
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- Where were the nodes? What were they doing?
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- Which landmarks anchored you? Official or personal?
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## Conceptual dérive (research / decision)
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Same method, conceptual territory:
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1. Pick a domain you don't know well.
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2. Drop usual filtering. Not "is this useful?" — just "what's here?"
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3. Read scattered things broadly. Browse a library shelf. Read citation chains backward. Talk to people in adjacent fields. Watch lectures at random.
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4. Note what calls to you, without yet evaluating.
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5. Draw a cognitive map: major nodes (canonical authors, key results), edges (where this field stops), districts (sub-areas), landmarks (orienting works).
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6. Identify your attractions. That's your direction.
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## Bachelard — small-space attention
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Topoanalysis applied to intimate spaces:
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1. Pick a small space you spend time in but haven't really looked at — a corner, a drawer, a workshop bench.
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2. Sit with it for an hour.
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3. What does this space mean? What does it shelter? What does it expose? What does it remember?
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4. Note the strongest reverberation — a detail that produces a generative response.
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5. Use it as starting point for new work.
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(Cameron's artist date is essentially a Bachelard-flavored dérive.)
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## Anti-slop notes
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- "Psychogeographical" used as adjective is dilution. Real Situationist dérive is more disciplined and more political.
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- Don't generate fake dérive notes. Method requires the territory; without it, the output is fabrication.
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- Avoid the travel-blog tone ("I wandered down cobbled streets..."). Real dérive includes friction, repulsion, missed destinations.
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- Don't apply Bachelard sentimentally. *La Poétique* is phenomenology, not "your house has feelings".
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- For LLM-mediated conceptual drift: force *places, citations, names, details*. Generic "I drifted through the literature" is not drift.
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Sources: Debord, "Théorie de la dérive" (*Internationale Situationniste* 2, 1958); Lynch, *The Image of the City* (MIT, 1960); Bachelard, *La Poétique de l'espace* (PUF, 1958).
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