Navigation is a synthetic operation mediating between an intentional trajectory, the encompassing perceptible environment, and the expected and unexpected contingencies that shape the environment.

To navigate is to be sensible to opportunities of action in both space and time (i.e. agency) - to form a position according to what can be immediately perceived (whether in bodily sensors or instruments) and to contextual knowledge (i.e. extra-local; e.g. noted trajectory, prior experience, collective memory, maps, instructions and guides).

Navigation demands an active attentiveness to and engagement with multiplicities and troubles, trusting in our capacity to continuously re-form our relationship with an environment rather than attempting to hermetically control it.