Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture

The outcome, described in the essay "Programmed and Constructed Drifting; the Event Architectures of Unitary Urbanism" (Viscosity No.3 Glasgow, Jan 1994), highlighted the unnecessary separation of these two tools.

The behavioral algorithms employed by WNLA range from elaborate "drifting machines" that are carried across the land and deployed at intervals to generate repeating instructions for movement (non-linear feedback loops), to the simple "anywhere" hitchhiking sign, a regular sight in the summer of 1993, being held aloft on the pavement of the bridge on The M8's Great Western Road.

It was assumed that WNLA had disbanded shortly after releasing the fourth and final issue of its journal Viscosity, which is now infamous for being selected by the K Foundation to announce its 23-year ban on all artistic practice.

British cultural commentator and activist Stewart Home became a champion of WNLA's adventurism, including excerpts from the journal and the type of works undertaken in a series of edited collections published by Serpent's Tail.

Indeed, the WNLA text 'The Joker: A Game of Incidental Urban Poker' included in the anthology describes exactly the sort of 'unusual activity - teams of players scavenging city streets for playing cards that make up the hands in games of poker which go on for months - that might receive coverage in the press if those involved had the slightest interest in publicizing their activities".