Blind Navigation examines situations in which urban systems continue to organize movement while orientation itself becomes unstable. The city remains structured by arrows, corridors, stairways, and pathways designed to guide bodies through space. Yet the reliability these systems promise begins to loosen. Movement persists, but certainty does not necessarily follow.

Urban environments are built to minimize hesitation. Directional signs, architectural alignments, and infrastructural passages are meant to translate space into readable instructions. In these images, however, such systems reveal an unexpected ambiguity. Arrows indicate a way forward while passages narrow, pathways divide without resolution, and access points promise entry while simultaneously restricting it. What appears as guidance begins to function as a form of uncertainty.

Blind Navigation focuses on this subtle disjunction between instruction and perception. The structures that usually stabilize orientation remain fully visible, yet their meaning becomes provisional. Instead of clarifying space, they expose how navigation often relies less on understanding than on the quiet compliance with systems that prescribe movement.

Photographed in Hamburg, this chapter reflects on the choreography of contemporary urban space. Infrastructure continues to direct circulation, but perception must operate within conditions that are only partially legible. What emerges is not disorientation in a dramatic sense, but a quieter state in which movement continues — guided by structures whose authority is assumed rather than fully perceived.