Schizocartography is a method of mapping spaces that questions dominant power structures and allows heterogeneous voices to be heard. It reveals aesthetic and ideological contradictions in urban spaces while reclaiming subjectivity for individuals. The talk will define schizocartography, discuss its roots in psychogeography and Deleuze/Guattari, and provide examples from the University of Leeds halls and a project called SCRIB. Handouts and slides will be available online along with information on a free zine about psychogeography.

1. Schizocartography
For Multistory Lecture Series
Canterbury School of Architecture 22nd October
Tina Richardson

2. Overview
• What is schizocartography and why was it developed?
• How does it work and what are the key themes?
• Example 1: The University of Leeds Charles Morris Halls
of Residence
• Example 2: The SCRIB Project
• Psychogeography books for architects
• Handouts, slides, other materials and contact details
• Competition for free limited edition hard copy of STEPZ: A
Psychogeography and Urban Aesthetics Zine

3. Definition
Schizocartography offers a method of cartography that
questions dominant power structures and at the same time
enables heterogeneous voices to appear from underlying
postmodern topographies. Schizocartography 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 subjectivity for individuals by
enabling new modes of creative expression.
Schizocartography challenges anti-production, the
homogenizing character of overriding forms that work
towards silencing heterogeneous voices.
Tina Richardson 2014

4. Situationist
psychogeography
schizoanalytic
cartography
(Guattari)
urban
walking
research and
archival
investigation
theoretical
analysis
'Marxist'
critique
output
e.g. détournement
“line of flight”
Deleuze and Guattari
‘Method’

5. Discourse & Power
Aesthetics & Affect
Subjective Cartographies
Heterogeneity
Manifestations of
Power in Urban Space
Reinscription
Transversality
Urban
Agglomerations
Social
Reproduction
Anti-production
Displacement
Desire
Social/Community
Capitalist
Consciousness
Relationality
Key Themes

6. Old Charles Morris Halls 1963
Chamberlin, Powell and Bon

7. New Charles Morris Halls - Design
Sheppard Robson/Morgan Ashurst

8. New Charles Morris Halls 2010

9. The Return of the Repressed

10. Questionnaire
1 Describe or list the parts of the space you walked around.
2 Does the building remind you of any other place you have been or building
you have seen (please explain)?
3 Describe the building and related space in general material terms?
4 Do you live here or have you lived here? Would you like to live here?
Please explain your answer?
5 Do you like or dislike the look of the building or do you not have a strong
feeling either way? Please explain your thoughts in this regard.
6 Does the area produce a particular feeling in you? Please state and qualify
if possible.
7 What can you say about this building and its periphery in relation to
openness or enclosure, access (allowing or deterring entry) and/or in or out
of sight (reveal/conceal)?
8 Can you describe the aesthetics of the building with one adjective?
9 Does the building 'fit in' with the rest of the campus?
10 Has this exercise made you look at the building (or the campus, or urban
space in general) in a different way than you have in the past? Please
explain.

11. The SCRIB Project

12. Moodboard

13. Holbeck Urban Village

14. Bridgewater Place
AHR 2007

15. Holbeck Urban Village Sculpture

16. Holbeck ‘Proper’ Sculpture

17. Proper Holbeck Sculpture

18. Map of Holbeck

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Showing that the act of physically exploring spaces reveals information not available elsewhere
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Highlighting contradictions between the discourse on and the manifestation of urban space
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Allowing minority voices to be revealed from the postmodern terrain...
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...enabling the potential for an alternative history to be written
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Encouraging the possibility of a re-appropriation of these spaces…
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…and allowing desire and creativity to create lines of flight!
Schizocartography works by…

20. Walking Inside Out
I read this book in a single sitting, flying from
Singapore to London. By the time we were over
Afghanistan, I was hooked. Stumbling into the
London streets from Heathrow Airport, I needed to
walk into British pyschogeography, which as this
landmark collection shows, blends British grittiness
and continental influences, creating something vital.
James D Sidaway, Geography
National University of Singapore
A bumper compendium, bubbling with insights and
oddments, and a multiplicity of perspectives, Walking
Inside Out accentuates the vibrancy of British
psychogeography, its varied theories, walking styles,
pathways, motivations. It will inspire you to stride out,
to wallow in this weird Island, looking askance at its
incongruities, vestiges, banalities, security
apparatus, rural idylls, shabby seafronts, and the
less trodden ways.
Tim Edensor, Cultural Geographer
Manchester Metropolitan University

21. Psychogeography for Architects

22. Handouts and Slides…
…can be found at particulations/blogspot.co.uk
A Free Zine
STEPZ: A Psychogeography and
Urban Aesthetics Zine can be found at
the same blog or by searching on
google for:
STEPZ Official Launch

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