Exercises of Derivas, is a workshop where children are given the opportunity to connect with their own urban area. It is a project developed by Aldea to encourage young people to experience, think and critically observe the city using a range of media. From the context of the majority of children having only the route from home to school as their only exposure to their own neighbourhood, there is a unique opportunity for them to experience new and critical points of view about their local urban spaces.

Inspired by the Situationists and the idea of the Flâneur, to drift and experiment in their local (yet less travelled) urban territories, the workshop serves as a strategy to re-learn the qualities and realities of their local spaces. It is an invitation to critically walk through their built environment to empower proactive citizens to become involved in their urban conversation. It is not just how to look at things in new ways, but also to develop new skills; to record, connect and analyse the qualities of the city, in order to form a voice with which ideas, thoughts and opinions can be communicated with the community.