I find it interesting after reading up on the Situationists online, that they promised that their architecture would one day revolutionise everyday life and release the ordinary citizen into a world of experiment, anarchy and play lying dormant within all of us already. This might mean different things to different groups, as there were/are many diff. groups of situationists, all with different motives and aspirations. But still, I wanted to take a moment to talk about the Situationists in general. I think the idea that a group of individuals has this abstract concept of 'making' a new urban space and totally disrupting our own contemporary conceptions of what this space represents is pretty awesome. It's like taking a totally artistic stance on urban planning, which is also kind of what this course is about.
"At the heart of Situationism is the notion that, under the surface of everyday life, is a numbed human energy which, however dormant, is ready to be awoken. It is dormant because the forces at the heart of capitalist society - the relentless circulation and fetishism of the commodity, the violent catatonia of the spectacle, the need for alienating labour (alienating because one works solely for the profit of another) - have smothered it. All that is required is a stimulus, an alarm-clock, to rouse people from their slumber : in other words, a revolutionary act. The Situationists describe various techniques which might be employed to create such a situation..." see the following link from more where this quote came from:http://awopbopaloobop.blogspot.com/2007/04/live-without-dead-time.html
Here are 2 pictures of work by the Situationists:
Situationist artist and architect Constant Nieuwenhuis created his 'dream city' sketch
This is called the 'Naked City' found on the following web site:http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/Vol6_No2_interactive_city_sant.htm
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