Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Initial Ideas/ Research

The brief I have just been given is titled 'The City' and from what I have heard about it, it seems like a fun and interesting topic to photographs as it is something that I have wanted to photograph more for some time now. Hopefully there will be some interesting outcomes from this assignment.
Psychogeography- From what I have read about psychogeography, my understanding is that it is the navigation from one point to another by using the more unconventional ways of doing so. 
In 1955, Guy Debord defined psychogeography as: "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behaviours of individuals."
Psychogeography (Year Unknown). Psychogeography – Study of the Geographical Environment. Available: http://www.psychogeography.co.uk/. Last accessed 9th November 2011.
I wanted to get another definition of guerrilla gardening so I had a search online and found an organisation who specialise in this type of gardening and have emailed one of the founders of the website. A copy of the email can be seen below.




Propaganda- A form of communicating which aims to change the attitude of a community to a certain cause other than what they already believe.

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