Sublime

Home can be local, a matter of the city, the neighbourhood, even the street; or we can change the angle and see ‘the place we belong to’ as a community defined less by physical space and more by passion, interest or shared experience; or we can zoom out and see it as encompassing the whole world and even beyond.

Psychogeography: a beginner’s guide. Unfold a street map of London, place a glass, rim down, anywhere on the map, and draw round its edge. Pick up the map, go out into the city, and walk the circle, keeping as close as you can to the curve. Record the experience as you go, in whatever medium you favour: film, photograph, manuscript, tape. Catch the

Urban explorers use the dérive to map the emotive force field of the city, and the way architecture and topography combine to create its 'psychogeographical contours'. Robert Macfarlane, a masterful writer-walker of the countryside, offers this summary of the practice: 'Unfold a street map of London, place a glass, rim down, anywhere on the map,

space of places.”