Dromomania was initially inspired by São Paulo, a city where dreams collide with the machinery of capitalism and movement often replaces direction. The project began as an investigation into how economic pressure, infrastructure, and technology condition human behavior within the modern metropolis.

As the work evolved, it became clear that São Paulo was not an exception but a prototype. Across major global cities, similar forces produce shared patterns of compulsion, disorientation, and collective procession, where individuals move continuously without clarity or pause.

Dromomania expands this condition beyond a single geography, reframing it as a scalable urban phenomenon. Drawing on worldbuilding principles, the project constructs a speculative system where human presence, artificial intelligence, and urban machinery intersect within parallel realities.

Operating as an immersive, interactive environment, Dromomania transforms urban psychogeography into a living structure. Through multiplayer interaction, mirrored simulations, and physical-digital translation, the work exposes the mechanisms that shape contemporary movement not as freedom, but as compulsion, and invites participants to navigate and respond within this evolving system.