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
"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
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