We suspect that the period of confinement has, for most people, been a profound experience. And obliged almost all of us to alter our relationship with time and space. Enforced leisure and heightened vigilance has opened new vistas to many. People have listened to birdsong for the first time, or ventured down a strange footpath, noticed mysterious markings on an old building or simply remarked upon the quality of the air.
As restrictions loosen and we return to old patterns, much of this sensibility will be re-submerged, but surely vestiges will remain to define whatever becomes the ‘new normal’. Our theme “Walk, Don’t Walk” expresses that central paradox.
This year’s congress will be a space for you to express your own take on that.
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Edgelands – Exploring urban landscapes from London to King’s Lynn
Spend an engaging afternoon of talking and walking with writer and film-maker John Rogers. Author of ‘This Other London- Adventures in the Overlooked City’, he will guide us through his many ways of approaching the familiar and the unfamiliar in the city. Part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival 15-29 May, in association with Groundwork Gallery, Kings Lynn and their exhibition "Field Work".
• Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography 2021 – ‘Playing Out’
The 4WCoP 2021 Congress is happening! We have pulled out all the stops, and we are hoping to pull together a full programme – mostly online, but including some physical events in Huddersfield and elsewhere, Covid restrictions permitting. This year’s theme is ‘Playing Out’. Please see our website for details about the Call for Proposals
Terminalia 2020 in Aberystwyth
Terminalia was the last day of the year in the Roman calendar; our system has this as February 23rd. It was the custom to walks the walls of a settlement on this day, and visit its terminii: this custom is re-enacted, often by psychogeographers, in many places today. In Aberystwyth, while the walls are no
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