Maps that Matter

The Naked City - The Situationists

Date: 1957

Creator: Guy Debord (1931 - 1994)

(Source: www.intelligentagent.com/archive/Vol6_No2_interactive_city_sant.htm)

• This subversive mapping was exhibited in 1957 in the First Psychogeographic Exhibition in Paris.

• Strongly iconic of alternative re-imaginings of the city and of the non-representational turn in cultural geography – inspiring numerous contemporary derives and artistic and activist engagements with the urban condition; e.g. Christian Nold’s biomapping of emotions.

Debord-inspiredEmotion mapping of London, 2004.

Mapping emotional arousal around the Royal Geographical Society……
(Source: www.biomapping.net/old.htm)