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The Situationist City Simon Sadler
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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 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. Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 1996. Diorama Map: Photographing the Situationist City. 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 mid-twentieth century in Paris saw a movement identified as the Situationist International. Drawing out mental maps of cities is nary a dull activity (first time I've used the word 'nary'). Situationism and the post-conflict city will the subject of a talk given by the CMR's Dr. €�The Great Sideshow of the Situationist International.” Yale French Studies, vol. "Play and the Urban Realm", in The Ludic City. Exploring the potential of public spaces. Sadler, Simon, “A New Babylon. Theory of the derive and other situationist writings on the city. In this connection, Guy Debord states that the city should be explored without any preconceptions or prejudices. Connected drift is based on the situationist technic of the psychogeographic walk in which chance and the surrounding environment itself determines the route taken. City – Psychogeographic Microcosms. New Babylon - the situationist city/utopia – taking the best parts and ideas of the globe and putting/patterning them together. Robert Porter at the Huston School of Film and Digital Media in Galway on the 13th September.