31.10.21 – MAPPING MATERIAL

The Psychogeographic Map in Ports of the World (1921) shows Montevideo as fragmented territory and depicts the emotional and subjective connections of some places in the City. The map conveys a social, experiential and existential ‘truth’.

“The Naked City” (1957), by french situationist intellectual Guy Debord. Debord rearranged a tourist map of Paris by slicing its neighbourhoods and connecting them randomly. These itineraries expressed his concept of “drift” or “derive”, where human trajectories are determined by chance.

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