A talk at Cass Business School, City of London University, for Motirot's Multiplicites event in April 2013 A recording of the talk can be listened to here: https://soundcloud.com/motiroti1/multiplicities-tinarichardson

1. in out
Traversing the Campus:
Journeys through the angularities and
winding passages of the university in ruins
Tina Richardson
University of Leeds

2. The University in Ruins

3. Dwelling in the Ruins
Dwelling in the ruins of the University thus means giving
a serious attention to the present complexity of space,
undertaking an endless work of détournement of the
spaces willed to us by a history whose temporality we no
longer inhabit. Like the inhabitants of some Italian city,
we can seek neither to rebuild the Renaissance city-state
nor to destroy its remnants and install rationally planned
tower-blocks; we can seek only to put its angularities and
winding passages to new uses, learning from and
enjoying the cognitive dissonances that enclosed piazzas
and non-signifying campanile induce.
(Bill Readings 2009: 129)

4. Psychogeography
The study of the specific effects of the geographical
environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions
and behavior of individuals.
[the] active observation of present-day urban agglomerations
cities have psychogeographical contours, with constant
currents, fixed points and vortexes that strongly discourage
entry into or exit from certain zones.
[A psychogeographer is] One who explores and reports on
psychogeographical phenomena.
(Situationist International)

5. Schizocartography
Schizocartography offers a method of cartography that
questions dominant power structures and at the same time
enables subjective voices to appear from underlying
postmodern topography. It is the process and output of a
psychogeography of particular spaces that have been co-
opted by various capitalist-oriented operations, routines or
procedures. It attempts to reveal the aesthetic and
ideological contradictions that appear in urban space while
simultaneously reclaiming the subjectivity of individuals by
enabling new modes of creative expression.
Schizocartography challenges anti-production, the
homogenizing character of overriding forms that work
towards silencing heterogeneous voices.

6. Reappropriated University Map

7. Aerial View of Campus

8. Pauline Mavis White – Died 1946

9. Traversing the Cemetery Wall

10. Contact Details
T.Richardson@Leeds.ac.uk