Workshop EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING: The Psychogeograhic Industriebahn by Emily Hunt

Description

Psychogeography is essentially the study of the ‘psychology of place’. Why are we drawn to certain places? How do certain places effect us in a profound way? Be that positivity or negatively. The best real world example of a negative outcome is Hostile Architecture – examples being bars on windows, barbed wire on fences, and some bureaucratic places, like jails, airport security. This course will focus on an action or movement, something which we do everyday but usually in a state of unawareness. It is an exercise, a practice, a mode of thought. We can think of this exercise as being “Embodied Walking”. This is a constructive behaviour with an awareness of the effect the city is having on you. The Situationists – led by Guy Debord understood this emotional mapping of the city as a rebellious act against the urbanisation and gentrification of the city. We will be using the Industriebahn location as our source for mapping, locating significant personal responses to place. The lecture will cover the history of psychogeographical drawn and collaged maps, looking at contemporary drawing practice in particular. We will be creating a drawn map that reflects the experience of looking at the Industriebahn with new eyes and using this sense to reflect on our experience of being in the larger city of Berlin.