‘…reflecting a wider awareness of ‘spirit of place’ through which landscape, whether urban or rural, can be imbued with a sense of the histories of previous inhabitants and the events that have been played out against them…This visionary continuity is described as a ‘chronological resonance’ and is the point at which place, history and identity converge…’
This was a quote I found from a woman describing her own opinion on what psychogeography is.
This is something that has can be interpreted differently depending on how you look at it, It is a wide set of views and ideas, this is some of the points I found important to my own understanding of what psychogeography is:
- Psychogeography approaches can be used as a playful tool to connect people to their environments more
- Mixture of psychology and geography
- Effect of the geographical environment on individual behaviour
- Importance on the activity of walking to enable a slow movement through surroundings
- The activity of walking becomes a subversion its-self, from our fast paced lives, as it goes against the spirit of the modern city
- exploring and analysing areas of the environment that have become overlooked
- New ways of experiencing surroundings instead of the drab monotony of everyday travel and well known routes
- Reveal the true nature of a place below the flux of everyday life
- sense of place
- Engagement is part of being human
- Rimbaud's coining of the verb 'Robinsonner' to explain ideas of drawing mental maps
- There is the political radicalism aspect of psychogeography but these are the points I am particularly interested in investigating.
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