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The Situationist City Simon Sadler
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Apparently the Dutch situationist Constant had (co-)written a pamphlet fifty years earlier about his ideal city. It comes from a group of theorists called the Situationists, whose work I have been interested in since learning about it in a first year art course. Connected drift is based on the situationist technic of the psychogeographic walk in which chance and the surrounding environment itself determines the route taken. The situationists hoped that architecture would ”revolutionize everday life, release the ordinary citizen into world of experiment, anarchy and play”. This entry was posted in Video. Vossoughian Thomas, Horn, Joseph. The pamphet, it was revealed, could just as easily be interpreted as a joke instead of as an actual serious statement. The Situationist City Simon Sadler MIT Press, 1998. The city would become a giant playground, its quarters acting as stations for a perpetual Revolutionary Festival. His publications study the architectural ideas of the Archigram group, the Situationists, and other experimental practices. New York Institute of Technology NYiT. Situationists and Independents felt that indigenous living patterns were best nurtured through the “clustering” of the city. It looked at Guy Debord's Correspondence (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e) 2008) and Tom McDonough's The Situationists and the City (London: Verso 2010). 70 (2010), I contributed a review, titled 'Situating the Situationists'. The situationists were are radical group of artists, theorists and activists, mainly in Paris in the '60s. Considering the search for meaningful engagement in a society that feels increasingly fragmented, certain aspects of Situationist theory are more topical than ever. This week predominantly involved us working on our essay which was due on Friday while also keeping our event ideas in the back of our mind. 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. 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.