interesting quotes

"Reality, as it evolves, sweeps me with it. I am struck by everything and, though not everything strikes me in the same wa, i am always struck by the same basic contradiction; although i can always see how beuatiful anything could be if oly i could change it, in practically every case ther is noghting i can really do. Everything is changed into something else in my imagination, then the dead wieght of things changes it back into what it was in the first place. A bridge between imagination and reality must be biult."

The Revolution of Everyday Life, Roaul Vaneigem, 1967

About psychogeography- takes pedestrians off thier predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape.

"All space is occupied by the enemy. We are living under a permanent curfew. Not just the cops – the geometry."

Manifesto of Unitary Urbanism, Roaul Vaneigem

"-understand their location, and therefore thier existance" -?!

"architectural performance."

"pedestrian exploration of the urban and suburban landscape."

The following quotes are from Formulary for a New Urbanism, Ivan Chtcheglov, 1963;

"Our imaginations, haunted by the old archetypes, have remained far behind the sophistication of the machines."

"Closed landscapes"

"integrate modern science into new myths remain inadequate"

"Darkness and obscurity are banished by artificial lighting"

"Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality and engendering dreams."

"Architectural complexes will be modifiable. Their appearance will change totally or partially in accordance with the will of their inhabitants"

"This need for total creation has always been intimately associated with the need to play with architecture, time and space."

"the absence of the object becomes a presence one can feel." - of de chiricos work

"The changing of landscapes from one hour to the next will result in total disorientation."

The following quotes are from Theory of the Dérive, Guy-Ernest Debord;

"In a dérive, 1 or more persons drop usual motives for movement and action and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there."

"When freedom is practiced in a closed circle, it fades into a dream, becomes a mere image of itself. The ambiance of play is by nature unstable. At any moment, "ordinary life" may prevail once again. The geographical limitation of play is even more striking than its temporal limitation. Every game takes place within the boundaries of its own spatial domain."

"playful-constructive behaviour."

"-cities have psychogeographical contours, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes thats trongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones."

"People can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is animated. Obstacles were everywhere. And they were all interrelated, maintaining a unified reign of poverty."

(Debord quoting Marx)