Documenting the Route:
I picked the A660 main route from Hyde Park to Leeds City Centre. This was an obvious route and throughout it were many opportunities to see how the pubic space had been affected, and wether it suited the population as a target market?
I decided to document the route very simplistically tacking the approach of the Situationsisg demountureve style and technique of cutting and 'feeling' the city. I also took photographs to develop and back up the route selection and documentation.
The route took 1hr 29 mins to walk with obvious stopping times for documentation and photography Overall i walked this route over 3 times in order to get a relabel and effective result.
The documentation shows rough mappings and layouts of the consumerism that is visual within the area. Advertisiments, shops, billboards, poster platforms, signage, business etc all took featured in the documentation of consumerism.
I chose to use the same route for the documentation of psychogeogrpahy. This ended up with me looking at groups of people, the weather, nature, buildings, graffiti, realism, conversations and other things i came into contact with.
Although the routes are the same i had a completely different experience with consumerism and psychogeography. I enjoyed documenting aspects of both, and was shocked at the results of the consumer aspects, but i feel psychgeorgraphy allowed me to feel more in tune with the route and the city. This results was good in allowing me to help prove Debord's theory in some respects.
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