CITYMOVEMENT
concerned with the issues and ideas of the contemporary city.
PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY
· by Sara · in Artists, City, Mapping, Situationist International, Urbanism. ·
Urban Cultural Studies posted “The City as You’ve Never Seen it Before” and it got me thinking about mapping and the Situationist Interntional. The Situationist International, an international group of revolutionary artists, philosophers and architects, was founded in 1957. The S.I. fought against the capitalist system and advocated for an alternative life style. In response to the city model Parisian urban planners were developing, the S.I. used the map of Paris to reconfigure the experience of the city by constructing situations that playfully and inventively explored the urban. Psychogeography was one of the particular strategies that the S. I. used to lead pedestrians off their predictable passageways and conduits within the city and surprised them with new experiences or insight of their urban landscape. By manipulating the map itself, they intervened in the logic of the city, constructing an alternative geography as well as a providing a different perspective of the city. They used mapping to bring together personal narratives and perceptions to counter the permanency of established cartography practices. While these maps provoked new ways of seeing and the city they also presented a new form of cartography.
Guy Debord, The Naked City, 1957
Guy Debord, The Naked City, 1957
Guy Debord
Guy Debord
Armelle Caron, Paris (from tout bien range series), 2005-2008
Armelle Caron, Paris (from tout bien range series), 2005-2008
Armelle Caron, New York (from tout bien range series), 2005-2008
Armelle Caron, Berlin (from tout bien range series), 2005-2008
Armelle Caron, Montpelllier (from tout bien range series), 2005-2008
Microurbanism Interactions, Instant Hutong, ongoing
Gerda Kruimer, Six Easy Pieced no. 1 (HEHAHO standing), 2010
Gerda Kruimer, Six Easy Pieced no. 1 (She), 2009
Gerda Kruimer, Rastertekeningen B1b en B1a, 2008
Gerda Kruimer, Schilderlj, 2005
Gerda Kruimer, Tekening no.3, 2008