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What on earth is Psychogeography?

Tim Waters

Also known as chippy

tim@geothings.net Is his email address

@tim_watersIs his twitter username

Its the effect of place on the brain.

It is the poetry of places.

the study of the specific effects of the geographical environment,consciously organised or not on the emotions and behaviour of individuals.

Ley lines, folklore, biography of people in place.

Techniques to explore and extend the imaginative, experiential qualities of urban and other landscapes, as part of a wider attempt to achieve a revolutionary transformation of everyday life.

he emotional and behavioural effects of the environment, and its ambience; 'cognitive mapping' (the city in our heads, with the places that have special meaning for us); and what might more prosaically called 'local history'.

Quick Definitions

Experienced / PracticedGet outside – exploration

Derive – rapid passge, drifting. Strolling

To transform a place, our perception of a place, and therefore the world.

Experiencing place not in the same way as everyone else.

Unique perspectives.

Drunken Situationists in Paris

Origins

Situationism

Flaneurs

New Breed

London Psycho AssociationManchester Area PsychogeographicStewart Home

Ian Sinclair

J G Ballard

FlimPatrick Keiller

London Calling

Richard Long

Current Breed

Will self

London perambulator

Alan Moore

We define ourselves by our surroundings and our situations. If you are brought up in a neighborhood that resembles a rat trap, pretty soon you are going to come to the conclusion that you are probably a rat.If on the other hand you have got to the tool of psychogeography — or poetry, then you can look at the ordinary world around you with the eye of a poet.

If you have that kind of insight into the tawdry and debased streets in which most of us spend our lives, then instead of walking down a rat trap you are walking through cataclysmic history, from your personal memories to the local legends.

then the rat trap becomes a fable, a mythological landscape.

And just as living in rat trap will give you the impression you live in a rat trap, then l suspect that living in a mythological landscape might after a while give you the subliminal impression that you are at least a mythological figure. A heroic character in your own narrative.

http://mappingweirdstuff.wordpress.com/Mapping Weird Stuff is a course offered as part of the OWjL summer camp at Ohio Wesleyan.

Story telling

Crowd

BiomappingChristian Nold

Smell map http://www.nioibu.com/smell/map

"a toasty odour of cow dung" to "used socks in the summer"Soundmaps too!

We feel fine

We Feel FineLiveJournal, MSN Spaces, MySpace,Blogger, Flickr,Technorati,Feedster, Ice Rocket,

Make Playce – Leeds

http://my.parkingday.org Parking Day

Leeds Derives

Beating the bounds

Bring booze!

- Ends -

It is practice based! so......

Get into groups of 3.

Each group take a piece of paper from me.

Go outside and follow whats on the paper for 10 mins (or longer) then come back.

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