Geography Collective

We are The Geography Collective, a team of geographers on a mission to get everyone exploring, seeing and thinking about the world in new ways. Since 2007 we've being making missions that help Mission:Explorers to discover new things.

Our missions have been described as inspiring, curious, witty, splendid, important, cool, funny, necessary, imaginative, brilliant, absurd and for everyone by a range of explorers and social experts.

Exploration is a state of mind. We are inspired as much by everyday, close and familiar micro-adventures as far-flung and exotic intrepid challenges. For us exploration is about searching for answers to questions even if you don't know what they are when setting out. Exploration is a process that can be real or imagined, scientific or artistic, big or small, near or far, planned or unplanned.. but is always creative.

We believe in exploration, adventure, psychogeography, politics and artistic intervention for the masses. Everyone should have the time, space, ability and support to explore not only for their own physical and mental health, but also their wider communities.

Collectively we are geography doctors, artists, teachers and explorers. Individually we are Daniel Raven-Ellison, Alan Parkinson, Kye Askins, Tom Morgan-Jones, David Rogers and Duncan Fuller. We are bigger than that though with lots of other people working with us on our books and new iPhone App and website for London (out this July) including Menah Raven-Ellison, Simon Renshaw, James See, Tony Cassidy, Andrew Boardman, Sarah Smith and Marie Sweetlove.

In the summer of 2010 we're taking our guerrilla geography missions on tour to Sunrise, Glastonbury, Latitude and The Secret Garden Party festivals in the UK.

All of our royalties from Mission:Explore are invested in free copies of the book for children who would never usually be given or buy a copy of their own. These books are distributed through charities including Play Associations.

Follow us on Twitter @geocollective and @missionexplore