RSS Particulations

  • Brutalist Access Points and Disappeared Stationers
    Chamberlin, Powell and Bon in LondonIt was interesting to revisit the Barbican (built 1965-1976) in London recently with the, now, knowledge of the Le Corbusier inspired architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon and their brutalist design. When I worked in this area of London in the late 1980s I spent quite a bit of time in the Barbican, in fact I was based on t […]
  • A (short) Tale of Two (books on) Cities
    David Pinder's Visions of the City and Jonathan Raban's Soft CityDavid Pinder's Visions of the City (2005) takes a primarily Situationist look at the city and discusses détournement, the dérive and their cartography in depth. Preferring the Situationists' approach to the Surrealists' he states: "The dérive placed more emphasis o […]
  • Neon Tabards, Dead Dissenters and Insect Hotels
    This is part 2 of my Bunhill Fields Blog. Part 1 can be found here:GWMs, Dead Psychogeographers and Funerary EnclavesBunhill Fields Cemetery is under renovation at the moment, as you can see from the above image. There are neon-tabard-clad men in huts, and health and safety notices abound. The work seems to be being carried out by these people:Nimbus are a c […]
  • GWMs, Dead Psychogeographers and Funerary Enclaves
    Image of map taken by Mark Barker.I was down in London this week doing a talk at the Cass Business School (City of London University) in EC1. This was an area I knew really well in the 1980s as it was my 'patch' because I was a sales rep. I knew every path and alley of EC1 since I walked every one of them, marking them off on my map as I traipsed. […]

Conference and Projects

Conference Papers and Invites to Talk

  • Sept 2011: Presented at Austere Cultures, Cultures of Austerity: Reaction to the Erosion of Critical Spaces, Leeds Metropolitan University (paper title: The Spectacle of the Institution: Situating Austerity in the University of Excellence)
  • Sept 2011: Presented at The Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London (paper title: Learning Space: Psychogeography as an Educational and Creative Tool)
  • Sept 2010: Presented at Society of Cartographers Conference, Manchester University (paper title: Challenging Anti-Production: Schizocartography as Method and Practice).
  • Dec 2010: Presented at Spaces and Flows Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles (paper title: Schizocartography of a Red Brick).
  • May 2010: Talk at Bradford Grid (urban photography group) at the University of Bradford.
  • July 2010: Presented at ‘City/States: revealing urban space and place’, Bradford University (paper title: From Nation-State to Excellence: Negotiating the Posthistoric University).

Projects and Links
Learning Space:
www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Online+gallery/Learning+Space.html

North and South: Across the Great Divide (radio appearance):
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01dtwls

Collaboration:
Since May 2010 Tina has been collaborating with two London-based academics, James Kennell and Wesley Rykalski, on a spatio-psychogeographical project that explores seaside resorts: www.arcadespromenades.wordpress.com