Get lost, or at least wander around for a while to a place you haven’t spent much time, that isn’t a well-known historical sight. Pay attention to your surroundings while you walk and look for a particular example of this clash between new and old. When you find some building or location that sticks out to you as especially pleasing or upsetting, take some pictures, walk around it, acquaint yourself with it, try to pick out a few reasons that you felt drawn to this place.

Then, take your observations and write a paragraph in the style of a museum placard. Try to be mostly formal: describe your “exhibit”, and the different elements that went into it (if you care to do some research on the location, you could include the date it was created, edited, who was responsible, etc.).

Find a spot in Tiergarten and sit for twenty minutes.

After twenty minutes of uninterrupted awareness of yourself and your suroundings, being conscious of all five of your senses, leave the garden and go to a place where you can write in solitude.

Write for ten to twenty minutes about the experience of your encounter with a specific species as it relates to its place in Berlin.

Post your findings in the comments section below.

i like that, when you take away capital P + C, you get psychiccity, and that sounds like a vague word but pleasing nevertheless