Submitted by Myriam Mahiques
City Perception Through Psychogeography
Architecture News - Nov 13, 2009 - 04:46 11779 views
In the SXX, the Surrealists and Dadaists in the 30’s, and the Lettrists in the 50’s, transformed this necessity of walking into a systematic practice that included drug and alcohol induced wanderings through Paris. In the 60’s, the Situationists supported by the social theorist and filmmaker Guy Debord, developed the psychogeography, a science of “derive” that relates psychology with geography and Art. The Virtual Museum Canada provides this definition : “Psycho geography is defined in the first volume of Situationist International as the study of specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.
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