Psychogeography
Psychogeography is a body technique, born with the artistic avant-garde, that investigates urban space by walking through it. It is the exploration of urban environments that emphasizes interpersonal connections to places and arbitrary routes.
To make a detour, walk around without a destination or a timetable. Choose your route not according to what you know, but according to what you see around you. You have to be estranged and look at everything as if it were the first time. One way to facilitate this is to walk with a rhythmic pace and slightly upward gaze, so as to bring the architecture into the centre of the field of vision and leave the street level at the lower edge of the view. You have to perceive the space as a unified whole and let yourself be attracted by the details.
- Guy Debord
Both the psychogeographical narratives created for the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio by Gianni Biondillo and the work of the students of his 'Psychogeography and Territory Narration' course are collected here: Psicogeografia
