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The Situationist City Simon Sadler
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June 4th Simon Sadler, The Situationist City. But the agenda of functional separation also resulted in the conclusion that Amsterdam's economic center, the CBD, had to be further expanded and the old city had to be “opened up” to traffic. By the end of Savage Messiah, the utopian impulse of Situationist urbanism returns while the city is smashed, and even the police seem to fade into mere afterthought. In 2009 the São Paulo-based Ocupeacidade collective created a paper-crafted Volkswagen van with life-size proportions and painted as a real van. Derive and Detournement: call back to situationism. The latest addition to Mark Shepherd's Sentient City Survival Kit packages up the best lessons of the Situationists into a handy psychogeographical iPhone App. 3:AM: I think you say in The Spectacle of Disintegration that détournement is perhaps the Situationists' greatest strategic legacy, but I wonder whether you'd agree that the dérive is a useful strategy for negotiating the networked environment, or what you called the One is the internet itself which was a kind of wild west area, and the other was about networking together across various cities, we'd travel around and visit each other and form temporary associations. The Cobra group dissolved only three years after it was founded, but Cobra members Constant Nieuwenhuys and Asger Jorn were to re-appear on stage as co-founders of the Situationist International in 1958. This vision was radicalized in the . In fact, I would argue that this definition of Open Source Urbanism dates back to the Situationist city of Unitary Urbanism, where urban dynamics would no longer be driven by bureaucracy and capitalism but by participation. Tags: ambiance, city, cyborg, derive, detournement, flaneur, haptic, modernity, situationism, space, utopia.