A Psychogeographical Guide to Hunstanton Promenade

 

Guide Psychogeographique De Hunstanton

By Tina Richardson

“Progress is nothing other than breaking through a field where chance holds sway by creating new conditions more favorable to our purposes.” Guy Debord

This map is a Situationist-style map based on Guy Debord’s ‘Guide Psychogeographique De Paris’.

The images highlight various ambiances on the promenade at Hunstanton, Norfolk. The curved line challenges the linear form of the promenade, and suggests an alternative way of walking along the prom (as does starting at the end). The phenomenon represented here do not appear in the order they do in actual space (also, some are transient, some invented e.g. there is no troll). The red of Debord’s map has been replaced with blue to reflect the sea. The cream colour, which actually appears in many of the reproduced images of Debord’s map, is meant to represent the sand. The text includes: subjective comments, rock music lyrics, popular phrases, a reference to a fairy tale, etc. In this Guide Psychogeographique I have used full colour on the map section, unlike my previous one of the University of Leeds campus, which can be viewed here:

Guide Psychogeographique De University of Leeds

Please note: I would like to give my thanks to those at www.geograph.org.uk who let me use their images. Also, to James Cridland at http://james.cridland.net Much appreciated!

Please see my blogs on A Schizocartography of Hunstanton located here:

Part 1

Part 2

And my other Hunstanton ‘map’: The Collage Seaside

Bibliography:

Debord, Guy. 1996. ‘Theory of the Dérive’, Theory of the Dérive and Other Situationist Writings on the City, ed. by Libero Andreotti and Xavier Costa (Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona). pp. 22-27.

For information on my other work, please go to: particulations