Psychogeography Project

 I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. - Robert Louis Stephenson

The idea behind a psychogeographical project is to focus on the surroundings with an open mind and fresh eyes, to explore the surroundings and how they affect you physically and emotionally.

Myself and Michal's Psychogeography Project is based around simply exploring Leicester and visiting random places around the Town Centre. In the hope to find somewhere new and exciting or find out information we never knew about.

To make it as completely random as possible we were blindfolded in turn, spun around and placed a pin in a map of Leicester City Centre. Each of us had three pins each, these places were then visited by us. Each of these destinations we took photographs, which included a stop at The Polar Bear pub for some food!

During our journey around the centre of the city, we discovered little side streets and buildings, whilst finding out bits of history of some the places we visited. Although some stops we found were very uninteresting, as you can see in our blog http://ourjourney.tumblr.com/ which we created to note our every stop and thought.

We also created these two short clips of us choosing our stops, just to show we were not biased and that all stops were completely random.

As well as this, the map we used was edited by adding the photographs we took of each stop to show our journey.

The finished Psychogeography Map

During our 'adventure' we were completely soaked as we got stuck in a rain storm, probably the worst rain storm for a long time, with blustery winds that nearly blew us over and no protection from the thundering rain! Lets just say when we returned home, we looked like we had jumped into a swimming pool!

After doing this project, i would definately consider doing it again in other parts of the country or even other countries. The way in which you can plan to go somewhere but not know exactly know where you'll end up is a great experience and great fun. It encouraged us to find out more and educate ourselves about our surroundings.