A Story is Not a Tree

We are imagining our psychogeographic figure in this way… We imagine the stalker as an distorted, attached, and elusive character whose behavior is fixed on a particular object or person. The stalker can blend in with society at large yet…

These are our basic ideas of several Mc Escher Cube we are designing right now.

We are imagining our psychogeographic figure as someone who both sees with the unconscious eye, and wishes to encourage others to do the same. As someone who is highly influenced by the desire to enter the dream-state and believes in…

Five potential Psychogeograpic methods for exploring a space, in the spirit of surrealism: Retracing the path you took in a dream. Closing your eyes and trying not to walk in a spiral (as is your natural instinct). Going to everything that…

The enemy showcases three distinct states – dodging, advancing, and recharging. When it is not doing one of these three, its “idle” state is steadily moving back and forth and firing shots at a rhythmic pace. The enemy’s total health…

1. Only walk through frames such as doorways, arches, awnings, etc. 2. Only walk uphill. 3. Walk only where others don’t. 4. Walk towards a fixed point until you can’t, then repeat. 5. Approach barriers, then jump over them. Repeat.

Crit was really useful for me because I had no confidence in my map before I presented it to the class. I had actually planned on starting from scratch. So I’m thankful that the feedback I received was so encouraging….

We want to incorporate the concept of light and darkness in our project, to represent criminality in our structure. We’re planning on using broken mirrors and glass, to manipulate and reflect the lights in our space. The space is transitional,…

The revolutionaries are considering the notion that’s imbedded in national history as “manifest destiny,” that is that land belongs to us to live is American lifestyle. We are interested in recontextualizing the landscape – beyond ownership, the assumption of the meaning…

List of methods that were used to traverse the campus: -Being completely concealed/hidden and observing the area/people surrounding -Following someone/something consistently (ex: a person walking out of bates, following a squirrel) -Immersing one’s self in a crowded area in order…

Group 2: Mariko, Mikey, Hillary, Rebecca On our derive we utilized some techniques that would be common for a flaneur. 1) Aimless strolling 2) Observing passersby 3) Following people and things that struck our interest 4) Participating in flows of…

Today the Historians walked around the campus, from spaces around Heimbold to Marshall Field to the space near Tweed. As we walked, we discussed the unique histories of the buildings and the landscapes. We walked around Heimbold, considering what materials…

(Pictured above: Inspirational piece by Monica Canilao) Today our group brainstormed on-site, about how we could apply our role as “historians” to the area next to Marshall Field. Though we’re still in the drafting phase, we cobbled together a few ideas…

In our game you have to move one “good guy” at a time while the tree cones keep falling, if the tree cone hits the good guy, he moves back to the start. If the tree cone hits the ground…

Our squirrels have three different phases of difficulty within the game: basic, acorn, and mega. At first we thought that this might make our behavioral chart intricate and complicated, until we realized that the squirrels have the same underlying pattern…