Session: Art, Science and Geographical Imaginaries (2): Critical Methodologies
Paper: Learning Space: Psychogeography as an Educational and Creative Tool
Author: Tina Richardson (University of Leeds)
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Learning Space
Psychogeography and urban walking can help students learn about the areas they live in by demonstrating that we do not have to take for granted how space appears to us. It also facilitates understanding in the connections between geographical space and history, politics, the economy and the lived experience.
The Situation at University
In challenging normal routes through space we are able to reveal how our unconscious is controlled by urban décor. By creating 'situations' temporary claims can be made to particular spaces that enable dominant power structures to be momentarily bypassed.
The Sound of the Sixties
This three minute film is an acoustic psychogeographical response to the area of the University of Leeds called the precinct and features two of the most impressive buildings designed by the architects Chamberlain, Powell and Bon, famous for their concrete brutalist architecture at the Barbican.
Hello! From Hunstanton
This is a short psychogeographical video filmed in the Norfolk coastal town of Hunstanton. It is shot with a device called a Sensecam which hangs around your neck and takes multiple images in response to changes in colour, temperature, light and movement: a truly psychogeographical camera!