Psychogeography
I came across the idea of psychogeography which depicts the idea that people are affected by their geographical environment. The idea explores how a geographical enviroment can affect how we feel and how we behave. As I am locating my video in the town of Milton Keynes, I will look into how this urban environment affects the population of Milton Keynes.
Flaneur
Though I have come across this word before, throughout investigating the idea of a geographical location being able to affect feeling and behaviour, this word kept presenting itself and I would like to understand why this word is so important to the ideas of psychogeography.
A flaneur is a term for someone who wishes to explore the environment around them and the society around them.
Charles Bordelaire's concept of the Flaneur ties into the idea of psychogeography as without these urban explorers and their visual ideas we wouldn't have such captivating results such as early films like The Haverstraw Tunnel, 1987 which comes under the genre of phantom rides. This phantom ride genre generally shares the same visual aesthetics, this shot is carried out by strapping the videographer and film camera to the front of a moving vehicle traveling in forward motion, often featuring the presence of a train.
Exploring the population statistics of Milton Keynes, the age profile for Milton Keynes is younger than England as a whole as 22.6% of MK citizens were aged under 16 compared to 19% of people in England. This could impose the idea that due to the youngness of MK this draws a younger population of people because younger people want to live in within the comfort of their own time compared to old people who often live in small villages etc. I would argue that because of this younger population, new companies and well established companies would use this geographical location to expand to as a younger civilian is more likely to go to McDonalds more frequently compared to an older person. I would like to take this concept of companies in mk being able to alter our behaviour simply through the use of geographical location. As someone who lives within a five minute walk to 2 McDonalds locations I can understand the appeal for cheap, unhealthy and 24hrs of convenient food. This convenience of geographical location encourages spending and an unhealthy diet. This concept is encouraged by Google as their GPS based map tells you how far you are from your nearest McDonalds location. This concept is shared by many other big companies in Milton Keynes.
Flaneur
Though I have come across this word before, throughout investigating the idea of a geographical location being able to affect feeling and behaviour, this word kept presenting itself and I would like to understand why this word is so important to the ideas of psychogeography.
A flaneur is a term for someone who wishes to explore the environment around them and the society around them.
Charles Bordelaire's concept of the Flaneur ties into the idea of psychogeography as without these urban explorers and their visual ideas we wouldn't have such captivating results such as early films like The Haverstraw Tunnel, 1987 which comes under the genre of phantom rides. This phantom ride genre generally shares the same visual aesthetics, this shot is carried out by strapping the videographer and film camera to the front of a moving vehicle traveling in forward motion, often featuring the presence of a train.
Exploring the population statistics of Milton Keynes, the age profile for Milton Keynes is younger than England as a whole as 22.6% of MK citizens were aged under 16 compared to 19% of people in England. This could impose the idea that due to the youngness of MK this draws a younger population of people because younger people want to live in within the comfort of their own time compared to old people who often live in small villages etc. I would argue that because of this younger population, new companies and well established companies would use this geographical location to expand to as a younger civilian is more likely to go to McDonalds more frequently compared to an older person. I would like to take this concept of companies in mk being able to alter our behaviour simply through the use of geographical location. As someone who lives within a five minute walk to 2 McDonalds locations I can understand the appeal for cheap, unhealthy and 24hrs of convenient food. This convenience of geographical location encourages spending and an unhealthy diet. This concept is encouraged by Google as their GPS based map tells you how far you are from your nearest McDonalds location. This concept is shared by many other big companies in Milton Keynes.
Navigating through Milton Keynes using GPS tracking emphasizes the ideas of Psychogeography as this urban environment affects the way we behave due to the commercialism which is often overlooked since extensive flooding of new medias which desensitized todays society.
Milton Keynes statistics
Whilst looking into data collecting artists, I found the aesthetics of their collected data to be very absorbing and started to look into graphic based statistics based on Milton Keynes.
Notes:
- Show the idea of a concentrated urban area in video
- Growing population
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- Lots of pop up notifications to do with spending money
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- notifications for unhealthy lifestyle
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- Walk past one of the electric charging points to emphasis the urban and eco thinking of the town
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- could include the tent city within my visual route (Cam-Park)
Notes:
- bikes!!!!
- as many roundabouts as possible
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