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The Situationist City Simon Sadler
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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. The situationists hoped that architecture would ”revolutionize everday life, release the ordinary citizen into world of experiment, anarchy and play”. Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 1996. Theory of the derive and other situationist writings on the city. New Babylon - the situationist city/utopia – taking the best parts and ideas of the globe and putting/patterning them together. City – Psychogeographic Microcosms. 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. The mid-twentieth century in Paris saw a movement identified as the Situationist International. The Situationists sought to dislodge the city inhabitant from their daily life, by engaging in derives, or aimless walks, that could last for any duration, so long as its sole purpose was to observe the city. The situationist city by simon sadler: guy debord by anselm jappe; Donald nicholson-smith. €�The Great Sideshow of the Situationist International.” Yale French Studies, vol.