DISPLACEMENT WORKSHOP 28 e 30 de Dez.

displace [dɪsˈpleɪs]
vb (tr)
- To move or shift from the usual place or position
- To occupy the place of; supplant

“Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones”.¹ But “walking has been the normal way to explore and exploit the city; the changes, shifts, breaks in the cloud helmet, movement of light on water. (…)Walking, moving across a retreating townscape, stitches it all together(…).”²
“It is [all] about how we are affected by being in certain places – architecture, weather, who you’re with – it’s just a general sense of excitement about a place³that makes you move on, right or left, or either stop.
Think about an algorithmic walking, define a strategy, a start and a beginning, with no proper destination. Try it your own: first left, second right, third left, first left, repeat. In other words, you head in any direction, walking step by step, and “the result is always a remarkable style of travel - neither goal-oriented nor random, structured but always surprising.”⁴
Think about your feelings: Where would you cry? Where would you ask someone to marry you? What smell reminds you of home? Ask questions yourself, make associations.
Imagine a “toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities…just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape”.⁵


1. HARRISON, Charles, WOOD, Paul, Art in Theory 1900.2000 : An Anthology of changing ideas, Blackwell Publishing, p.703
2. SINCLAIR, Ian, Lights out for the territory, 1997, p. 4
3. HART, Joseph, A New way of Walking City, Utne Reader, Julho/Agosto 2004, in http://www.utne.com/2004-07-01/a-new-way-of-walking.aspx
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