psychogeography
/ˌsʌɪkəʊdʒɪˈɒɡrəfi
/ /ˌsʌɪkəʊˈdʒɒɡrəfi /noun [mass noun]
1The study of the influence of geographical environment on the mind or on behaviour: a newly emerging discipline within geography is psychogeography...
- Psychogeography is concerned with the human perception of place and how it changes over time.
- In a way, what Hartmut is trying to do is meld psychogeography with biogeography, creating in effect, psycho-biogeography.
- Psycho-geography, he says, "is concerned with places and the emotional states they provoke".
1.1 [in singular] The geographical environment of a particular location, typically a city, considered with regard to its influence on the mind or on behaviour: the psychogeography of London...
- Mapping the psychogeography of the Americas was undoubtedly one of the obsessions of 20th century art.
- The novel's subject matter, the mythology of Jack the Ripper, the 'psychogeography' of east London, would resurface frequently in his work.
- Benes also has a fascinating piece on the psychogeography of the seventeenth-century Roman campagn.
Derivatives
psychogeographic
- For the past 20 years, Charles LaBelle has explored both the geographic and psychogeographic space of the city.
- 'Sculpture and the Sculptural in Halifax and Vancouver' is a wonderful psychogeographic comparison of our two coastal cities.
- His work mines similar territory to the psychogeographic fictions of Iain Sinclair.
psychogeographical
- Even William Blake might have seen this spot as some kind of psychogeographical axis mundi, where two different kinds of wildness have collided.
- New psycho-geographical maps of the city can define space and environments according to people's needs and emotions, rather than as the functionalist city vision of planners and architects.
- Once, he took the train to the outskirts of the city and walked the same distance back, all part of his psychogeographical plan to map the city.
Origin
Early 20th century: from psycho- + geography.