Psychogeography: The Marriage of Dream and Place

http://urbandreamscape.com/

"Practicing psychogeography is about becoming conscious of how your environment affects your emotions, your energy, your behavior. Mindfulness matters in psychogeographical pursuits."- Jennifer Dumpert

Jennifer Dumpert has adroitly created a beautiful website about finding psycho-correspondences between the quicksilver, protean land of dreams and the world of "hard facts," the collective or consensual world of H1N1 and bubblegum. Psychogeography is partially inspired by a French post-surrealist movement that existed in the 1960's. They were called "The Situationists". The Situationists were staunch followers of a travelling practice they called Derive. Derive is a "technique of locomotion" that has no set goal or destination. It is a pilgrimage that only involves aimless wandering. Think John Coltrane and nomadism here. I would imagine that the further one explores the profound minutiae of Derive, the further one turns into a masterful flaneur of claustrophobic and rustic spaces. Derive and dream on!