Psychogeography is a playful, imaginative technique which can foster belongingness, inspire creative thought and practice and help people situate themselves in their environments. It has a considerable heritage from the artists, writers and philosophers who practised walking as a creative endeavour, from the Lettrists and Situationists who practised it as a subversive revolutionary act to reclaim occupied territory, as a dadaist and surrealist activity usurping normal conventions to explore the urban environment, and as a community building activity to enable individuals to associate and bond with their surroundings. It is in the words of Joseph Hart “a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities... just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape
Hart, J. (2004) ‘A New Way of walking’, Utne Reader
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