Course Description

In this seminar we explore the history, present, and future of psychogeography, hoping to map the center and the edges of this elusive field and to pioneer potential new directions and applications for the principles we discover (or invent) along the way. We discuss classic and more recent texts—including novels, …
In this seminar we explore the history, present, and future of psychogeography, hoping to map the center and the edges of this elusive field and to pioneer potential new directions and applications for the principles we discover (or invent) along the way. We discuss classic and more recent texts—including novels, essays, poems, reviews, films, and other works of creative nonfiction and speculative fiction. Students also undertake their own psychogeographic wanderings and complete a final “carto-imagino-synthetic” project to document, describe, map, and otherwise “make sense of place” through these techniques.
Learning Resource Types
Written Assignments with Examples
Projects with Examples
Instructor Insights
An opening to a dark arched passage leading to a sunlit space, with a silhouetted human figure.
No space is neutral in its relation to the mind, though the mental and emotional effects of spaces may be difficult to elucidate. (Photo courtesy of Neil Hester on Flickr. License CC BY-NC.)