Psychogeography Project

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In week 9 we were set a Psychogeography project.
We were set the task of planning a unique way to navigate around Leicester. We had to plan a route using specific items/instructions.

My group chose to navigate using street names. We took the last letter of the previous street and looked for a street beginning with the same letter. We then walked down the road, took some photos and took the last letter and repeated th process. We began on Mill Lane on DMU campus and so looked for a street beginning with 'E'. This proved more difficult than we thought, so we used the 'L' of 'Mill' instead. We found more roads beginning with this, which lead us to walk for a while unti lwe got stuckon trying to find a road beginning with the letter 'G'. We thought this would be much easier than it turned out to be.

This lead us to walk for 3 miles out of the city centre and into an entierly new area for us, at which time we decided we'd walked far enough and we headed back. On out way out of the centre we had noticed lots of streets beginning with the letter 'B' so we changed our idea for the return journey to navigate by streets beginning with only the letter 'B'. This proved more productive and we got more photos and found lots more streets then our 1st attempt.

We eventually ended up back in the city centre and maade our way home. We worked out in the next workshop, whilst making our mapon Google maps, that we had walked a total of nearly 7 miles! We felt this was a good thing because we fully tested the idea of this psychogeography project.

In week 11 we had to gather all our findings from our walk and make a map of our journey. To do this we used 'Google Maps' which is a useful application on the internet, found by the link on Google's homepage. We used an exsisting map of Leicester and added our points along our jouorney. These points are marked by coloured markers and each marker has a photo to show where we walked. The purpose of the photos is to give an atmosphere of the street and/or area as the map doesn't give that sort of detail.

This project was different to any other i've done before but it was fun to plan and the walk was unpredictable which made it interesting. As a group I think we undertook this task well and got a good result.