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The Situationist City by Simon Sadler

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

It comes from a group of theorists called the Situationists, whose work I have been interested in since learning about it in a first year art course. '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? The situationists hoped that architecture would ”revolutionize everday life, release the ordinary citizen into world of experiment, anarchy and play”. Book Review: The Beach Beneath the Street – the Situationists · bkg_constant_babylon-1 Constant was a Dutch painter and artist who spent many years designing the utopian city of New Babylon. The city would become a giant playground, its quarters acting as stations for a perpetual Revolutionary Festival. 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. Vossoughian Thomas, Horn, Joseph. New York Institute of Technology NYiT. 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 situationists were concerned with expressing their desires and the desires of the city, embracing play and rejecting work, creating 'situations' in which one could engage with the city as flux – an ever changing event. This entry was posted in Video. 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.