As part of LCC's Design & Rhetoric unit, I created this research and experimentation book.
Merlin Coverley's 'Psychogeography' was the starting point of my investigation. The first and most prominent aspect of the study of psychogeography is the activity of walking; seeking to overcome the process of 'banalisation' by which everyday experience of our experiences becomes one, drab monotony.
Psychogeographers seek to share a perception of the city as a site of mystery and to reveal the true nature that lies under the flux of everyday life.
Using one of Jules' Muji London handkerchiefs, I embroidered a week's worth of journeys. Red indicates a bus journey, orange cycling, pink the Hammersmith and City Line etc...
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