Hello psychogeography lovers. I came across a lot of related news in the last month, so will continue to post the links with a brief description under a respective heading. I hope you find the newsletter interesting. More in August…
Psychogeography
and Walking
It seems that Nick Cave (yes, he of Bad Seeds fame) has
unintentionally been doing some psychogeography. You can read about him photographing
lost
gloves on his walks in The Guardian.
Here’s another The Guardian articles
on walking the Limestone
Way of the Peak District. And, here, another piece of accidental
psychogeography which includes interesting photos of bricked up windows
in London, from the BBC website. Whereas this Youtuber is doing some ‘proper’
psychogeography by walking the most direct route on his “straight
line mission” across Scotland (from The
Guardian). The final two articles under this section look at ‘well-being’
and walking: one on walking
with friends in The Guardian, and
the other is research on mental
health and hiking from The
Conversation.
Architecture
Yanko Design has an
interesting article which includes some lovely futuristic images of imagined
spaces looking at green
skyscrapers, while The Spaces has
an alternative
architectural guide to Venice. Here is a guide to the 2021 London
Festival of Architecture in The
Wallpaper and I am including this really useful link to all things Charles Jencks, as it has loads of
useful resources on his work.
Cities
The
Conversation has an article on the
queer city and inclusivity and The
Science Museum Group Journal has a brilliant journal article on science
and the city, which seems to be open access. Here’s a The Guardian article about the pedestrianisation
of Oxford Circus in London. And, on a more light-hearted note, here is a
link to a novel entitled The
Cat and the City by Nick Bradley (I am a big fan of both). Finally, under
cities, this super 20 min film called ‘Organism’
by Hilary Harris (1975) from the Aeon
website, shows “the city as an emergent form, with architecture as the skeleton
and roads as the veins”.
The Weird or
Random
On the more random side of all things spatial: bleak
spaces that you come to love (this The
Guardian article requires you to already to be a signed up member, although
it is free). And, I will finish this blog on a bit of bonkerity: this chappy
accidentally annexed
France by moving some rock (from The
Conversation).
