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Living in a Dizzying World

January 7, 2016 Wu Ming

Art Competition and Survey Image: Creative Routines by RJ Andrews The Art Competition and Survey Living in a Dizzying World

Traces of Memento

December 23, 2015 Maximiliane Schneider

Artist in Residence from Germany in the Footsteps of a Forgotten Time in Istanbul Walking through the streets of Istanbul

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Spoils: Extraordinary Harvest

January 16, 2015 Thomas Büsch

An aging brooklyn artist, his young assistant, and blind friend arrive by rusted retro car; a Puerto Rican woman and

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Berlin: counteracting gentrification – Markthalle IX

June 26, 2014 Johanna Fröhlich

The project Markthalle IX in Berlin successfully counteracts gentrification by reactivating a historical building. Today, the Markthalle IX is a

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Find your Cathedral – blow up the Eiffel Tower

February 11, 2014 Thomas Büsch

The French political theorist, activist and poet Ivan Chtcheglov was following his Ukrainian father as a revolutionary of his time. His

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Love on the left bank

October 24, 2013 Lousia Döderlein

“Love on the left bank” was originally published in 1956. The book from Ed van der Elsken tells a

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Walking, exercising the right to be free

October 11, 2013 Lousia Döderlein

In 1957 lifelong conscientious objector Rumney was one of the co-founders of the London Psychogeographical Association. This organization was, along with COBRA and the Lettrist International, involved in the formation of the Situationist International.

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Urban Foraging

October 7, 2013 Lousia Döderlein

The new urban trend “urban foraging” is getting more and more popular. Foraging describes the act of looking or searching

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Movement and mapping in urban space

September 12, 2013 Lousia Döderlein

The concept of drifting (dérive) is the wandering around in the urban area and the close observation and exploration of

One of the basic situationist practices is the dérive or drifting, a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiences. Dérives involve playful-constructive behavior and awareness of psychogeographical effects, and are thus quite different from the classic notions of journey or stroll.

In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.

Chance is a less important factor in this activity than one might think: from a dérive point of view cities have psychogeographical contours, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes that strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones.