Schizocartography

For Multistory Lecture SeriesCanterbury School of Architecture 22nd October

Tina Richardson

Overview

• What is schizocartography and why was it developed?• How does it work and what are the key themes?• Example 1: The University of Leeds Charles Morris Halls

of Residence• Example 2: The SCRIB Project• Psychogeography books for architects• Handouts, slides, other materials and contact details• Competition for free limited edition hard copy of STEPZ: A

Psychogeography and Urban Aesthetics Zine

DefinitionSchizocartography offers a method of cartography that questions dominant power structures and at the same time enables heterogeneous voices to appear from underlying postmodern topographies. Schizocartography is the process and output of a psychogeography of particular spaces that have been co-opted by various capitalist-oriented operations, routines or procedures. It attempts to reveal the aesthetic and ideological contradictions that appear in urban space while simultaneously reclaiming subjectivity for individuals by enabling new modes of creative expression. Schizocartography challenges anti-production, the homogenizing character of overriding forms that work towards silencing heterogeneous voices.

Tina Richardson 2014

Situationistpsychogeography

schizoanalyticcartography

(Guattari)

urbanwalking

research andarchivalinvestigation

theoreticalanalysis

'Marxist'critique

outpute.g. détournement

“line of flight”Deleuze and Guattari

‘Method’

Discourse & Power

Aesthetics & Affect

Subjective Cartographies

Heterogeneity

Manifestations of Power in Urban Space

Reinscription

Transversality

Urban Agglomerations

Social Reproduction

Anti-production

Displacement

Desire

Social/Community

Capitalist Consciousness

Relationality

Key Themes

Old Charles Morris Halls 1963

Chamberlin, Powell and Bon

New Charles Morris Halls - Design

Sheppard Robson/Morgan Ashurst

New Charles Morris Halls 2010

The Return of the Repressed

Questionnaire1 Describe or list the parts of the space you walked around.2 Does the building remind you of any other place you have been or building

you have seen (please explain)?

3 Describe the building and related space in general material terms?4 Do you live here or have you lived here? Would you like to live here?

Please explain your answer?5 Do you like or dislike the look of the building or do you not have a strong

feeling either way? Please explain your thoughts in this regard.6 Does the area produce a particular feeling in you? Please state and qualify

if possible.7 What can you say about this building and its periphery in relation to

openness or enclosure, access (allowing or deterring entry) and/or in or out of sight (reveal/conceal)?

8 Can you describe the aesthetics of the building with one adjective?9 Does the building 'fit in' with the rest of the campus?

10 Has this exercise made you look at the building (or the campus, or urban space in general) in a different way than you have in the past? Please explain.

The SCRIB Project

Moodboard

Holbeck Urban Village

Bridgewater Place

AHR 2007

Holbeck Urban Village Sculpture

Holbeck ‘Proper’ Sculpture

Proper Holbeck Sculpture

Map of Holbeck

Showing that the act of physically exploring spaces reveals information not available elsewhere Highlighting contradictions between the discourse on and the manifestation of urban space Allowing minority voices to be revealed from the postmodern terrain... ...enabling the potential for an alternative history to be written Encouraging the possibility of a re-appropriation of these spaces… …and allowing desire and creativity to create lines of flight!

Schizocartography works by…

Walking Inside OutI read this book in a single sitting, flying from Singapore to London. By the time we were over Afghanistan, I was hooked. Stumbling into the London streets from Heathrow Airport, I needed to walk into British pyschogeography, which as this landmark collection shows, blends British grittiness and continental influences, creating something vital.

James D Sidaway, GeographyNational University of Singapore

A bumper compendium, bubbling with insights and oddments, and a multiplicity of perspectives, Walking Inside Out accentuates the vibrancy of British psychogeography, its varied theories, walking styles, pathways, motivations. It will inspire you to stride out, to wallow in this weird Island, looking askance at its incongruities, vestiges, banalities, security apparatus, rural idylls, shabby seafronts, and the less trodden ways.

Tim Edensor, Cultural GeographerManchester Metropolitan University

Psychogeography for Architects

Handouts and Slides……can be found at particulations/blogspot.co.uk

A Free ZineSTEPZ: A Psychogeography and Urban Aesthetics Zine can be found at the same blog or by searching on google for:STEPZ Official Launch

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