The End

A Reflection of my time Blogging

Even though I have done blogging previously I enjoyed these lectures a lot. It was more academic as I learnt about HTML. The actual blogging I would'nt do on a weekly basis, I was blog when i felt i had something interesting to write about that would be useful for the group wiki. As i look back, i feel that i used the blog more as a place where i could keep information for the group wiki and very little to reflect on the days work.

The Group Wiki is what i enjoyed doing most, it allowed me to gain more knowledge about HTML and it felt like i was creating an actual webpage. However, working in a group I felt that was almost left everything to the last minute, but it all worked out in the end. I felt i did quite a lot of work on the group wiki. I enjoyed helping the group with the wiki too, i enjoyed the fact that some memebers of the group would ask for my help before asking Nigel. Furthermore, I think in the end the group wiki looked good and we understood what psychgeography was and successfully portrayed that on the group wiki

The longest day of my life

Oh my gosh! I've been up since 5am. Somehow i managed to stay awake for 5 and a half hours of work and then make it in on time to attend Blogging...and then i got hyper in the lesson! Ha!

So what did Group 2 do today i hear you ponder? Well, as i was hyper i become bossy and felt the need to tell the group who needs to do what. We decided that Kibibe and Elma are going to work on the "Past and Future" page, while Chantelle will take responsibility for the main "Elephant & Castle" page i opted to help too. Marissa is going to proof read the entire wiki which is a huge job, because spelling mistakes suck! Oh and i'm going to sort out my "defining psycogeography" page and we all have an input in the group page.

I also did some work in the lesson....i helped my group with any technical problems they had trouble with. (I told Nigel he could go home, but he didnt, his loss)

Anyway it is nearly the end and i'll miss using the blog

(-.-)Zzzz

Jaskeerat Sehra is equipt for the digital age

Today we all decided what pictures to use on the front page of the blog. We also decided who is going to do what for next week (or even Thursday) so that we can finish all the unfinished pages on the blog.
We are also going to add a couple of new pages (or links) to our wiki and will definitely make sure that there is enough on psychogeography and that its not all one big photo-montage.

P.S Nigel taught us how to copy and paste an image through using html codes which i thought was very useful and pretty amazing to be honest.

Here are some pictures i thought would be useful for the group Wiki:


The Elephant!!









Underground St used as Air Raid Shelter:

Pictures of Elephant now and how it will be changed:

Our take on Psychogeography

Our take on Psychogeography

As a group the first thing we decided on was what we think psychogeography means and what aspect we will be "studying". To sum it up in 1 sentence (or to sum up our take on it);

Psychogeography is acknowledging the ignored

and we derived this term from the quotation below, which we will also use on our group wiki.


"Only an awareness of the influences of the existing environment can encourage the critique of the present conditions of daily life, and yet it is precisely this concern with the environment which we live which is ignored."

24/02/09

Last week (17/02/09), the group went out and about in Elephant to take pictures of the 'psychogeography'...and here are a few that i took:















This week we started our Wiki (yeyy!!). I can't believe how simple it is; but i might regret saying that. We found it hard to create a wiki when doing it straight onto the screen; so for next time we know to draw it out onto paper first. We made the front page and added images; the images link to another page (oo how fancy) but Nigel did say we have to make it obvious that the images link to another page.

Hopefully next week we should add all the pictures the group took to the Wiki.

Psychogeography

Psychogeography
"the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals." Guy Debord [1]

Only an awareness of the influences of the existing environment can encourage the critique of the present conditions of daily life, and yet it is precisely this concern with the environment which we live which is ignored. [2]


From this quotation I would describe psychogeography as an exisiting environment/building/area which goes ignored through our daily lives. Reasons for why these buildings are made or who they were made for are not something one would think as they walk by them nearly everyday. When looking at buildings through this perspective, it can change the way in which people view a building.

Dérive is a part of psychogeography. It was a practice used mostly by the Dadaists, where they would "let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there"[ibid.] however this was all done consciously; "informed and aware wandering" [3]. This could easily link with psychogeography as it changes the way in which someone looks at an attraction or building and what else is surrounded by it.


[1] http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/2
[2] http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.evans/psychogeog.html
[3] http://www.monoculartimes.co.uk/city-tours/psychogeography/workingdefinition.shtml