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Marrakesh → Lagos · 2026
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Chapter 01 · Morocco

01
ORIENTATION→ACCOUNTABILITY

Marrakesh

(Departure, stars, orientation)

10 OctOfficial startopener

The route begins inside a living city. What does departure already owe?

For whom? · By whom? · Under what care?

Field conditions · liveFull reading →

Reading conditions…

Capture · By whom?

Name one thing you will refuse to record because the refusal is more honest than the capture.

Sound note · 15 s

Name one thing you will refuse to record because the refusal is more honest than the capture.

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The ◉ photo button records a fragment. Voice and note record the field decision around it.

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Provocation

What kind of guest does the archive become when it begins in Marrakesh?

Field log

Before leaving, write what Marrakesh lets you enter, what it keeps at a distance, and what it asks you not to take.

Route scaffolds: images and sound seeds↓

These are route scaffolds, not confirmed stops. Each point holds a Wikimedia image slot, a Freesound query and a blog prompt so the road can replace the estimate with lived material.

Tanner at work, Medina of Marrakech, Morocco.
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Petar Milosevic · CC BY-SA 4.0

Milestone 01 · Chapter 01

Marrakesh

Morocco · 10 Oct 2026

official endpoint

Departure begins inside a living city. Ask what kind of guest the archive will be before the medina is left behind.

Care note

Keep names, faces and voices private unless consent, context and a reason to publish are all clear.

Freesound API seed
Marrakesh medina footsteps market night
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Status
Official start
Country
Morocco
Arrival
10 Oct 2026
Practice
Orientation

Orientation

ORIENTATIONstars, first notes, first route traceBegin with a protocol the road can correct

Stars, city, road and first notebook page

Marrakesh is the official departure city and the only confirmed start. It is a city of medina thresholds, craft labour, trade, gardens and performances of arrival. The first task is to enter without turning the city into scenery.

What success looks like

A careful opening makes departure accountable: it names what is carried into the journey, including privilege, language and the rules for what should not be recorded.

For whom?

Who is allowed to feel at home in the first images, and who is made into atmosphere?

By whom?

Name one thing you will refuse to record because the refusal is more honest than the capture.

“Do not make the city a prologue. Let it interrupt the journey before it begins.”
Field rule · this prototype
“The first map should be easy to correct.”
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