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The Situationist City Simon Sadler
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Sadler, Simon, 1998, The Situationist City, The MIT Press I picked this book because cities are interesting to me and I'd like to learn more about theories and movements to do with living in city, urbanism, utopia and the like. It looked at Guy Debord's Correspondence (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e) 2008) and Tom McDonough's The Situationists and the City (London: Verso 2010). Apparently the Dutch situationist Constant had (co-)written a pamphlet fifty years earlier about his ideal city. 70 (2010), I contributed a review, titled 'Situating the Situationists'. 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. According to Simon Sadler, author of "The Situationist City," the Situationists argued that professional architecture had led to "a sterilization of the world that threatened to wipe out any sense of spontaneity or playfulness. The situationists hoped that architecture would ”revolutionize everday life, release the ordinary citizen into world of experiment, anarchy and play”. The pamphet, it was revealed, could just as easily be interpreted as a joke instead of as an actual serious statement. Christopher Collier (University of Essex) and Joanna Figiel (City University London), 'The Recombinant Dérive – The Situationist International, biopolitics and the neoliberal dérèglement de tous les sens'. It is an interesting idea to think about maps as both a tool to navigate the city as well as a tool to represent a particular experience in that city. 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 situationists were are radical group of artists, theorists and activists, mainly in Paris in the '60s. Home > SDS Programs > Foundation > laboratory > lab readings > The Situationist City. 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. 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.