The Situationist City. Simon Sadler

The Situationist City


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The city would become a giant playground, its quarters acting as stations for a perpetual Revolutionary Festival. In my final year in graduate school I learned about a group called the Situationist International and I became fascinated with their imaginative imagery that drew from architecture and art. The Situationists sought to dislodge the city inhabitant from their daily life, by engaging in derives, or aimless walks, that could last for any duration, so long as its sole purpose was to observe the city. New Babylon - the situationist city/utopia – taking the best parts and ideas of the globe and putting/patterning them together. Diorama Map: Photographing the Situationist City. "Play and the Urban Realm", in The Ludic City. Sadler, Simon, “A New Babylon. Situationists wanted to convert the interest of play with new at ideas the level. Exploring the potential of public spaces. In fact, I would argue that this definition of Open Source Urbanism dates back to the Situationist city of Unitary Urbanism, where urban dynamics would no longer be driven by bureaucracy and capitalism but by participation. The latest addition to Mark Shepherd's Sentient City Survival Kit packages up the best lessons of the Situationists into a handy psychogeographical iPhone App. Ever since I started teaching this course in 2003, I've wanted to incorporate the work of the Situationist International in ways more explicit than my brief lectures on spectacle and modernity. 130606_Situationist City The Situationist City. The dérive was a course of preparation, reconnaissance, a means of shaping situationist psychology among urban explorers for the eventuality of the situationist city. Drawing out mental maps of cities is nary a dull activity (first time I've used the word 'nary'). In 2009 the São Paulo-based Ocupeacidade collective created a paper-crafted Volkswagen van with life-size proportions and painted as a real van. Stanza artwork image The Situationist City.