MEANDERING L.A.

FLOWING CARTOGRAPHIES

Archive, analysis and visualization of situationist and pedaludic practices in urban and non-urban territories

Juan Pablo Margenat — Visiting Scholar UCLA/REMAP 2026
Research Director: Fabián Wagmister  ·  REMAP Development: Jeff Burke
cheLA  ·  Fundación Williams

Meandering L.A.

There is a moment when cycling becomes more than a mechanical movement. The body finds its rhythm, the territory begins to speak in ways that only slow and sustained movement allows, and something we decided to call knowledge — embodied, situated, unrepeatable — starts to take shape. Flowing Cartographies investigates that moment: how to record it, express it, and above all how to expand it.

This research develops a theoretical and practice-based framework and a digital platform for analyzing and expressing situationist and pedaludic practices in urban and non-urban territories. Drawing on the UCLA/REMAP Flows and Diachronies project as a primary case study, it investigates how embodied movement and drift can interrupt dominant psychogeographies and enable alternative forms of territorial understanding. The work advances the long-standing PedaLúdico/UCLA collaboration and contributes prototype tools directly to Professor Wagmister's Engaged Media Production course.

Developed within a Visiting Scholar residency at UCLA/REMAP, in close dialogue with Professor Fabián Wagmister and Professor Jeff Burke (REMAP). Its practical horizon is S.A.L.I. — a collective pedaludic drift crossing the province of Buenos Aires, September 2026.

With the support of Metabolic Studio

Esta investigación fue realizada mediante un subsidio de la Fundación Williams

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PLISS

PedaLudic Interpretive Situationist Spheres

The live transmission and archive platform for situationist pedaludic experiences. Spherical captures, environmental data and collective dialogue assembled in real time.

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FiveCrops

Cartographic Laboratory

A rhizomatic detour within the research. Five urban extractions from a cycling map of Los Angeles — where interpretive tools are built, tested and iterated in small portions of territory.

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PedaLudic Tools

Knowledge built to share

Instruments developed during the research — live GPS tracking, ride archive, GPX cropping and route merging. Open and available for other pedaludic practices.

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Credits