Navigation is often understood as a way to impose order on space—to locate, direct, and orient within structured environments. Historically, navigation tools have shaped not only how we move but also how we perceive space itself. From the early astrolabe to contemporary GPS systems, instruments of navigation have transformed land, sea, and air into calculable, governable domains. But what happens when these distinctions collapse? This course explores the shifting relationship between striated and smooth space (Deleuze Guattari) in navigation and media. Land has historically been a gridded, territorialized space, while water represents fluidity, instability, and openness. Yet, in the digital world—where GPS abstracts movement into coordinates—these differences blur. Does digital navigation restructure our relationship to space, erasing distinctions between fixed and fluid, movement and control? How do we think of different ways of dis/orientating ourselves? Through theoretical and historical analysis, we will examine navigation and orientation systems from a media perspective: • Historical contexts of navigation and orientation tools: From celestial navigation and compasses to GIS mapping and digital tracking. • The transformation of space through navigation media: How different instruments shape perception, territory, and power. • Navigation as a performative act: How moving through space is mediated by tools, rules, and technologies. • Comparing and combining navigation systems: Understanding different models of wayfinding and their implications for contemporary media. While we will touch on alternative, embodied, and affective forms of navigation (such as the dérive and flâneur), the main focus will be on media technologies and their role in structuring movement and perception. Through readings, discussions, and experimental mapping exercises, we will critically examine the impact of digital navigation systems, their erasure of spatial complexity, and the potential for alternative, hybrid modes of orientation. This course invites students to think beyond the act of moving from one point to another and instead consider navigation as a media-driven process that reorganizes the way we relate to space itself.