The Situationist City by Simon Sadler

The Situationist City Simon Sadler ebook
ISBN: 0262193922, 9780585028286
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Format: djvu
Page: 352

'We demand games with great seriousness', that is the core essence of my research, can we still play (or were we ever able) to play with seriousness? His publications study the architectural ideas of the Archigram group, the Situationists, and other experimental practices. For the Situationists, your city was there to be misused, to be detourned. June 4th Simon Sadler, The Situationist City. In this connection, Guy Debord states that the city should be explored without any preconceptions or prejudices. Derive and Detournement: call back to situationism. During its short period of existence, the Situationists' ideas had a great impact on the revolution of May 1968 and this historical event made them recognisable in various circles. The book was reviewed by Edwin Heathcote, John Green, Karl Whitney, Resonant City, Gwen Webber, Peter D. New Babylon - the situationist city/utopia – taking the best parts and ideas of the globe and putting/patterning them together. The rest of this chapter takes us on a whistle-stop tour of alternative urbanism; from the Situationist International's avant-garde 'psychogeography' to graffiti, parkour and free-running, to contemporary urban exploration. €The benign professionalism of architecture and design had, in their opinion [situationists], led to a sterilization of the world that threatened to wipe out any sense of spontaneity and playfulness. This is because of how much your streets are an extension of capitalism. Psychogeography: Situationist Reconnaissance for Revolution: Part 1. Diverse By taking dérives across neighbourhoods of the city, the drifters capture their emotions for the terrain with photos, verses or collages on a map, which eventually represent their psychology and for that reason the outcome is called 'psychogeographic map' (e.g. The Situationist International movement is inspring it in dogmatic approach to reducing the passive nature of people in their everyday lives. Huizinga's (1938/1986) Homo Ludens was another profound influence on the Situationists (e.g., on Constant's utopian plans for mutable buildings, for cities that would be shaped by the spontaneous and collective desires of their citizens). The City Is Wilder and Kinder Than You Think. Tags: ambiance, city, cyborg, derive, detournement, flaneur, haptic, modernity, situationism, space, utopia. In my final year in graduate school I learned about a group called the Situationist International and I became fascinated with their imaginative imagery that drew from architecture and art. The Situationists and the City, edited by Tom McDonough, was published last year by Verso (Amazon).