The techne of making a ferry: a non-representational approach to passengers' gathering taskscapes

► Passengers are artful social agents who skilfully negotiate their passages' multifaceted spatial and temporal features. ► Gathering refers to the activities preceding the principal component of a passage and leading to departure. ► The techne of making a departure is about artful, skilful making: the successful performance of one's task. ► Skills of orientation, reflexive movement, and adaptation comprise the taskscape of travel.