The Royal Institute for the Advancement of Psychogeography this week welcomed a perceived Government commitment to exploring territories of
the mind. President Sally Over said: "This will help put
psychogeography on the map, I think."
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A TV production company is on the verge of commissioning a new
mental landscape gardening show with the working title of Where's My Shed? according to outsiders aimlessly drifting past Channel 4 last week.
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Friends of the Wheel are to press local authorities to include more
green dreamings for cyclists and psychogeographers in their transport
policies, with provision for non-location specific hubs, canal rethinks and
psychopaths.
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An Epic Space Surrounded By Thoughts, the autobiography of
pioneering psychogeographer Dr. Andrew Ginnel, is published this month and
available from all good recovered memory outlets.
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A real-time walking lecture lasting several months is planned by
novelist, poet and psychogeographer Brian Dowsing. "I will negotiate the
M25 in a counter clockwise direction, pointing out connections and
disconnections between our psychological mediation of London and its actual
topography", he warned.
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A new urban mindmapping course for children - Psychogeographat! - is
being thought about in various locations by senior psychogeographers
remembering their own childhood when multiplex cinemas, Australian theme bars and
aluminium clothes lay in the future.
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A reminder that Open Mind Day will take place on November 17.
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