In Psychogeography 101 we discuss contemporary urban exploration practices with cultural theorist and psychogeographer Tina Richardson. After tracing back to the mid-twentieth century work of the Situationist International, we outline what doing psychogeography looks like today and how it could—and should—be part of the practice of anyone seeking a better understanding of their own geographical imagination.
In EPISODE TWENTY FOUR, Countries & Capitals, we seek to increase our geographic literacy by reviewing country names (in the order of most to least populated) while locating each within its region and naming its capital city. At the same time we also critique the very same geographical imagination this limited view of geography constructs in our minds. Test your skills by following along with this map.
Maps are ubiquitous in today’s world. Our geographical imaginations are both expanded and limited by their form. But, what is a map? Roughly 25 years ago academic geographers began to seriously question their taken-for-granted history. Rogue map deconstructionist Denis Wood explores with us Google Maps, critical cartography, the geo-body, Winnie the Pooh and North Carolina.
Does a city have its own song? A hum and beat that makes it unique? Join us on this short expedition to record the soundscape produced by the everyday interactions of people and place in Old Town Salzburg. With microphone in hand we drift through the narrow streets and lanes capturing a different kind of music and consider a different way of thinking about our sensory experience of place.
In EPISODE TWENTY ONE, Seeing Heimat Through a Lens, we discuss the power of photography to shape and frame sentiments and ideas about place-based national and regional identities in 1930s Austria. Art historian Dr. Elizabeth Cronin of the New York Public Library guides us back to this key moment in the construction of a contemporary Austrianness rooted in tradition and the rural on the one hand, yet striving to be modern and urban on the other.
