Information Design Field Trip 05 - 08 / 02 / 08

�Not to find one�s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one�s way in a city, as one loses one�s way in a forest, requires some schooling...� �
Walter Benjamin

33 people, 33 Moleskine City Guides, 3 days in the city of Vienna.

Each person taking part in the field trip worked thematically to explore and celebrate the situationist notion of the Derive*. The combined work exhibited here represents a psychogeographic mapping* of the city of Vienna in Austria.

The personal notations contained within each Moleskine are interpretations of place, time and event. The notebooks serve to demonstrate the degree to which visual design can be highly idiosyncratic and still communicate an nderstanding and experience to a wider audience.

*The Derive
An idea used by the Situationists in an attempt to convince indviduals to revisit the way they looked at urban spaces. The concept means to aimlessly walk, or drift, through the city streets being guided by the space itself.

*Psychogeography
Defined by the Situationist Guy Debord in 1955 as the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.
More concisely it could be described as a series of inventive and individual strategies for exploring a city. This could be undertaken in any manner that takes the indivdual away from their predictable routes and encourages them to percieve the urban landscape in a new way.