Walking the city with Michel de Certeau
This reading was about looking into the way people live in certain cities.
Guy Debord looks at the way cities are put together and how people have a position in society. He splits people into two groups, one being the walkers and the others being the voyeurs.
One of the interesting things about the walkers is that he describes them to be the people who walk around the city doing everyday things and running their lives with some being oblivious to their surroundings.
The other type of person is the voyeur. The voyeur will stand above the city and look down at the walkers and observe what they are doing. I liked this because it is like a hierarchy system where the leaders look down at their workers. Plus, the author related this to New York and with it being a big city with skyscrapers it is as if the higher up in a job you go, the more you can look over and act god to the walkers below.
Expedition
The second part of this reading is going out to a location chosen by Anna and documenting everything you see, hear, smell and touch until we arrived at the bandstand in the center of Hanley Park.
This was such a good way of observing our surrounding instead of just walking through oblivious to what is going on around us.
We have also been asked to write up an A4 page on what we have seen ect. along with pictures and send it to Anna which we will do later this week!
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