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For the University of LeedsFor the University of Leeds55thth November 2015 November 2015
Tina RichardsonTina Richardson
……the citythe cityReadingReading
……the campusthe campus
Overview• What is psychogeography and how can we use it
critically• Urban semiology and the reading of space• Guided campus walk• Researching/discussing what we discovered• Learning resource/quiz answers
Urban cultural studies…where cultural theory/cultural Urban cultural studies…where cultural theory/cultural heritage meets psychogeography…heritage meets psychogeography…
What is psychogeography?The study of the specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.
[The] active observation of present-day urban agglomerations.[A psychogeographer is] one who explores and reports on psychogeographical phenomena.
Situationist International
What is psychogeography today?…when using the term psychogeography one should always be thinking of psychogeographies. The bricolage nature of psychogeography means that its influence for a specific group or individual will be vastly different from each other. Even if two psychogeographers define what they do in, say, Situationist terms, this will result in a different practice and outcome for each of them. It might be better to think of the historic influences of urban walking practices as being a kind of toolbox for contemporary psychogeographers.
Tina RichardsonIntroduction to Walking Inside Out
Reading Space in Cultural Theory
• Sigmund Freud• Roland Barthes• Karl Marx (+ neo-Marxists)• Michel Foucault…
Stones can make people docile and knowable.Stones can make people docile and knowable.Michel Foucault
Psychogeography works by… Showing that the act of physically exploring spaces reveals information not available elsewhere Highlighting contradictions between the discourse on and the manifestation of urban space Allowing minority voices to be revealed from the postmodern terrain... ...enabling the potential for an alternative history to be written
Guided Walk
Inspection Cover
William Airey and Sons• Were building contractors in Leeds, the North
and the UK• Builders of the Brotherton Library• Sir Edwin Airey (1878-1955), William Airey’s son,
helped build one of Rugby’s most famous venues - at Headingley
• Designed a significant prefabricated house – the Airey House!
The Airey House
William Campbell
William Campbell
Philanthropist
Who died April 30 1903 . Aged 93 yrs.
Friend of the Working Man.
Pioneer of and Lecturer for the Temperance Society…
Question 1
What is this? Where is it located?
Question 2
Where is this sculpture?
Question 3
What road is this walking silhouette on?
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