psychogeography – thinkwhere 
The website hosted on thinkwhere.wordpress.com serves as a blog and resource hub focusing on geographic information systems (GIS), mapping technologies, and spatial data analysis. It features posts discussing various applications of geographic data, often highlighting case studies or technical insights related to geospatial science and its practical implementations. The content addresses a range of topics including software usage, data visualization techniques, and emerging trends in location-based analytics.
Additionally, the site documents collaborative projects and community engagement efforts that involve spatial data in urban planning, environmental monitoring, and cultural mapping. It also occasionally covers events and workshops related to geographic information science, reflecting an ongoing engagement with both academic and professional domains in the geospatial field. The blog emphasizes detailed exploration of spatial methodologies and their relevance across different sectors.
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Terminalia 2026 Walking Sticks of Rock in York
The walk started from the theatre cafe and across the road was the Rock Garden. This rock garden was full of specimens of rocks around the region and theres a Rock Map in the middle. From there it was on the search for rock sticks, but I first passed a hippy shop selling rocks, minerals […]
An AI Image Adventure for Terminalia – using chatgpt vision to create an mobile psychogeographer
For the 2024 Terminalia Festival of Psychogeography (of which I also curate) I created a mobile psychogeographer and adventure. The psychogeographer looks at the world, interprets it and gives suggestions as to how to explore it and where to go next. This was inspired by the “ChatGPT Figures Out Huddersfield” event of 2023. The theme […]
4wcop Session Videos and RTE 1 Inside Culture special show
Videos for Friday and Saturday Main Auditorium Sessions. It’s two months since the Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography held in Huddersfield in 2017. The Friday and Saturday sessions in the main auditorium were streamed live and now we are happy to have the recorded videos on VideoHud. Friday: https://videohud.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=35b7f952-f43e-4f52-a777-28524e5b3e9a Saturday: https://videohud.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=33167394-753d-4497-acdf-559963c81513 Of special interest is […]
Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography 2017 : a brain dump
For the fifth year running I’ve been co-organizing the series of World Congresses of Psychogeography. You can read up about last years congress here. From 8-10 September in Huddersfield, the Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography http://4wcop.org/ took place. The three days had around 200 people attend, with over forty events from the loony, the jolly, […]
Otley Psychogeographic Sound Walk. Notes from a talk.
Otley Walking Festival – Psychogeographic Sound Walk. Notes from a talk. For the second year in a run I took part in leading a psychogeography walk for the Otley Walking Festival. The festival runs for a week and has dozens of varied walks from 20 mile hikes up fell and dale, walks looking for cup […]
4wcop Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography – Huddersfield. 2016
Intro The Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography (4wcop.org) happened a few weeks ago in September and was held at Heritage Quay at the University of Huddersfield. It was organised by Phil Wood (Urban Therapist http://philwood.eu), Alex Bridger (Huddersfield Psychogeography Network and Academic Psychologist the University), Dave Smith (Participation and Engagement Officer at Heritage Quay) and […]
The New Cloud Atlas – Mapping the Physical Infrastructure of the Internet
Introduction The New Cloud Atlas, (newcloudatlas.org) is a global effort to map each data place that makes up the cloud in an open and accountable way. It’s a project to find and map each warehouse data centre, each internet exchange, each connecting cable and switch. Anything of any physical significance in the operation of the […]
Colliding The Mental Maps of Edinburgh with Mapwarper.net
Last autumn I popped up to Edinburgh from the North of England for State of the Map Scotland conference. Together with Edinburgh College of Art in Evolution House participants took part in series of workshops “Map.Makars” I took part in a memory map of the city. The rules were: no looking at other maps, the […]
Markov Chains, Twitter and Radical Texts
The next few posts will cover some pet projects that I did whilst not being able to work due to recent civic duty. They cover things from the role of familiar strangers on the internet and anti-social networks, through to meteorological hacks, funny memes to twitter bots. The first in this series is about what happens when you […]
John Gray on maps and cities.
A map can represent the physical structures of which a city is at any one time composed, but the city itself remains uncharted. This is not only because the city will have changed materially by the time the map appears. A map cannot contain the infinite places that the city contains, which come and go […]
Leeds Data Thing, Maps and Hackdays
Leeds Data Thing is a new group started in Leeds (not to be confused with Leeds Ruby Thing!). I spoke at the first event (read the write up from Rebecca) about Geospatial visualisations and OpenStreetMap: Here are the slides: Since then there has been a few other events as part of Big Data Week – including a load […]
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Walking Art / Walking Aesthetics
The website https://walkingart.interartive.org is a digital platform dedicated to the exploration of walking as an artistic and cultural practice. It serves as an archive and resource hub that documents various walking art projects, events, and research. The site features detailed descriptions, visual documentation, and theoretical reflections on walking art, highlighting its interdisciplinary nature and its intersections with performance, sound, mapping, and urban exploration. The platform aims to facilitate knowledge exchange among artists, researchers, and audiences interested in the cultural and artistic dimensions of walking. In addition to its archival function, the website offers access to curated collections of walking artworks and narrations, contextualizing them within broader geographic and social frameworks. It provides users with tools to navigate and understand the significance of walking within contemporary art discourses and cultural geography. By situating walking practices in relation to place, memory, and perception, the platform emphasizes the role of movement and spatial experience in shaping artistic expression and cultural identity.
A Certain Logic of Expectations
A Certain Logic of Expectations proposes a counter-narrative of the British city of Oxford that resists the visual imperatives of its ancient university. For the past five years, Arturo Soto (MX) explored the longstanding division between town and gown through a careful selection of spaces and objects.His visual narrative is loosely structured around the following thematic strands: notions of home and
• Wainwright: Creative Mapping Workshop with Jessica Emsley
Join artist, Jessica Emsley for a walking art workshop. Together, we’ll explore the creative possibilities of mapping a walk, creating our own subjective maps through sketching and writing whilst on foot and developing these on our return to the Armitt. Inspired by Wainwright’s meticulous recording of his Lakeland walks, we’ll create both a shared record
• Depending on how you look at it
Janice Jensen's "walkingwhiledrawing" project explores the subjective perception of moving through the environment. Using a drawing machine, she records her movements while walking to create linear documentation and virtual landscapes in VR. The ongoing project has been displayed in various exhibitions and is set to expand with new landscapes and multimedia elements.
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