Adaptive Urban Camouflage

Actual, casual and active urban camouflage is about becoming a part of an interpersonal space (adaptive), not hiding within a (crypsis) visual space.

Urban camouflage isn’t about blending into the physical city around you but to appear as if you’re from and belong there. Achieved by selective cultural assimilation and controlled method acting.

Nature, despite its vast diversity is all made up of relatively specific patterns that can be easily duplicated as graphical prints. This is why wilderness and weather mimicking camouflage is just a matter of wearing their respective patterns; jungle, desert, snow etc.

Camouflage in urban environments isn’t nearly as passive, it can and only be active as well as adaptive.

There is a pattern called “urban camo” that even the military utilizes but it’s not intended nor is it effective as actual camouflage. When they use it, it serves more for a uniformity purpose and not to blend-in with the city.

So in essence, there is no such thing as a universally applicable urban pattern as there are with nature.

Technically, urban camouflage should be called “adaptive urban camouflage” as it’s not merely a garment you wear but an entire act of decisive self reinvention.

To blend-in to a type / group of people or simulate a specific person or persona that fit the locale or venue. That is true urban camouflage. Becoming a part of an interpersonal space, not hide within a visual space.