The psychogeography project that I undertook helped to capture the images that may have been overlooked on an ordinary day. Psychogeography aims to develop an insight on the surroundings of different areas. Guy Debord, a French situationist, looks at the term derive, in which he claims ‘In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there’ suggesting the observation of current surroundings and the awareness of any findings. This is what me and a friend aimed to achieve throughout a project which we undertook. I created two projects overall as I was dissatisfied with the first creation as it could be perceived to contain more ethnographic routes. This can be indicated because it predominantly studied anthropology, as it focused on daily routines, in comparison to viewing the geographical correlations. The motive of the first project, designed by I and a friend, was that it would generate numerous pictures of the surroundings present, regardless as to where we were, with the variation that was accordance to alternating times throughout the day. One limitation with this, however, is that it lacked the ability to focus on more geographical elements, as the photos were based on our daily routines, causing the majority of the images to be predominantly focused in our homes. This video can be acknowledged below.
First Psychogeography Presentation
First Psychogeography Presentation
