What is Psycho-geography

psyco -geography is an exploration of urban environments that emphasizes playfulness and also a sense of  drifting or movement,this also has a strong connection to situational international. This movement of photography was defined by Guy Debord as the study of precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment,this is due to the means of the environment becoming more man made and not having freedom of movement and now a given route is always occurring. Everything is now consciously organised or not,on the emotions and behavior of individuals,This could also be explained by a box filled with inventive strategies for exploring cities and anything that takes a pedestrian off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of urban landscapes altogether.

How it was invented

It was originally invented to be developed by the avant garde movement,the originator of what became known as unitary urbamism,is highly influential.The idea of urban wandering relates to the older concept of the flâneur, theorized by Charles Baudelaire. Debord and others worked to clarify the concept of unitary urbanism, in a bid to demand a revolutionary approach to architecture.

Unitary Urbanism – the synthesis of art and technology that we call for — must be constructed according to certain new values of life, values which now need to be distinguished and disseminated.The Situational’s response was to create designs of new urbanized space, promising better opportunities for experimenting through mundane expression. Their intentions remained completely as abstractions. Guy Debord’s truest intention was to unify two different factors of “ambiance” that, he felt, determined the values of the urban landscape: the soft ambiance — light, When freedom is practiced in a closed circle, it fades into a dream, becomes a mere image of itself. The ambiance of play is by nature unstable. At any moment, “ordinary life” may prevail once again.

what I like about psycho-geography

Is that there is a strong  sense of freedom of constriction within the art from,and also a strong sense of abstraction,there are boundless ways in which to conceive space in which we  travel and the individuality between each piece is highly interesting.