not another psychogeography blog 
Explorations in urban decay, renewal and utopia. On this blog-space you will find a range of articles, photos and stories about psychogeography and anti-psychogeography. There are many contributors to this blog including David Bollinger, Fenella Brandenberg, the Bored in the City Collective and guest contributors such as Alex J Bridger and Charlotte Tillsbury.
Most recent articles
Psychogeography and Psychology: In and Beyond the Discipline
Due to be published 22 April 2022 Psychogeography usually refers to radical and artistic ways of walking or to a conflation of psychology with geography. In this unique work, the author makes arguments for considering psychogeography as a way to critique the contemporary world and to consider new ways of studying the interface of human... Continue Reading →
Walking the Yorkshire Moors: Textiles, Art and the Landscape
The ‘Woven’ festival is about celebrating the textile industry across the Kirklees region. As part of a 2 week programme of events, I went on a textile art walk on the Pennine Moors just above Marsden. The walk was led by a researcher and weaver with interests in textiles and rural landscapes. At the beginning... Continue Reading →
Who is David Bollinger? And who is Fenella Brandenberg?
David Bollinger and Fenella Brandenberg are world leading psychogeographers! If you want to find out more about their work do come to the Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography at Heritage Quay from the 8-10th September. Further details available at:...
Walking to Waterloo
I’ve been researching the battle of Waterloo, the Napoleonic Wars and also learning about wargaming for the past couple of months. So on the 18th June 2015 I decided to combine my interests with political history, wargaming and psychogeography by doing a dérive in the ‘other’ Waterloo in Huddersfield. The point of such a walk […]
World Congress of Perambulatory Sutures: Huddersfield and Leeds 13/14 May 2015
As part of a series of events in relation to the World Congress of Perambulatory Sutures, two very special events took place – the Class Wargames collective hosted a participatory performance of Debord’s Game of War at the University of Huddersfield on the 13th May and the first of several book launch events for an […]
The monkey magic walk
Many moons ago there existed a broadly psychogeographical group called the bored in the city collective. They were a group of radical academics, artists and activists from Manchester, Stockport and Huddersfield. They used to do lots of random things like burying time capsules, lunar water walks and undertaking political studies of gentrification of towns and […]
Tour de France – Holme Moss
The Tour de France got me thinking about the idea of professional cyclists trying to get from a to b as quickly as possibly in order to be the fastest cyclist. It’s not really a ‘psychogeographical’ endeavour but there are numerous ways that it could be…both for the cyclists and the spectators… In line with […]
A drift around Paddock
I recently read Farley and Robert’s Edgelands book which is an excellent account of familiar but forgotten spaces which are neither part of cities or the countryside. The Edgelands are in fact the ‘spaces in between’ places … The writers Farley and Roberts argue that the Edgelands tend to be ‘ignored or misrepresented’ in much […]
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Mythogeography: A guide to walking sideways
2 parts storyThis is the gloriously funny and endlessly fascinating account of the author’s recent journey on foot across the north of England in the footsteps of a man who made the same journey 100 years ago with a dog trouvé called Pontiflunk.Buy it just for his inimitable account of the journey. 1 part handbookThe
Park to Park Sunday walk – Highbury Fields to Finsbury Park
Want to get to know London through its parks? Join a Walk that takes in the Parks of north London. Starting at Highbury Fields we will walk through Stoke Newington and near north London, taking in Clissold Park, Woodberry Down Park & reservoirs, New River walk, and Finsbury Park.
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