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The Dérive

The Dérive. The Purpose and Meaning. Definition. A dérive is an attempt at analysis of the totality of everyday life, through the passive movement through space. It is translated as drift…. The Dérive. …A technique of rapid passage through varied ambiences. The Dérive.

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The Dérive

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  1. The Dérive The Purpose and Meaning

  2. Definition A dérive is an attempt at analysis of the totality of everyday life, through the passive movement through space. It is translated as drift… The Dérive …A technique of rapid passage through varied ambiences

  3. The Dérive The Origin of the dérive Debord states that a derive is a technique in which we allow ourselves to undertake a fast journey through various ambiences. “In the field of culture Situationists wanted to break down the division between artists and consumers and make cultural production a part of everyday life. Situationist ideas played an important role in the revolutionary Paris events of 1968.”

  4. Paris "The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the space of a few meters; the evident division of a city into zones of distinct psychic atmospheres…” The Dérive

  5. The Dérive Myth or Cliché? City of Romance – what makes it romantic?

  6. The Dérive On both the preparatory dérive and our planned one for Paris, one of the aspects we shall be looking at is the representation of the old and new

  7. The Dérive We shall also be looking at how the media represents the city and how that differs to reality.

  8. The Dérive Primary Sources • Photographic Camera • Video Camera

  9. The Dérive Methodology “We planned a standardised walk around Coventry, using the relevant technologies to capture what we saw” “Using film, picture or other various techniques to capture a derive, you allow yourself to take a journey to discover a city”

  10. The Dérive Secondary Sources “But from any standpoint other than that of facilitating police control, Haussmann’s Paris is a city built by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” (Debord)

  11. The Dérive Analysis “It contains a large number of short publications from 1958 to 1969 which were important and closely related to Paris and the changes it was undergoing. It comprises opinions and reactions to this change, merging as a unified struggle of voices towards a better city.” Knabb, K. 2006., SituationistInternational Anthology (1981) USA: AK Press

  12. The Dérive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXzbS79lXqo

  13. The Dérive Analysing the Footage “In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.” (Debord)

  14. The Dérive Continued… “Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.”

  15. The Dérive Evaluating the Experience “We want to ask questions that can answer why the cities function in the way they do in terms of Culture and Attitude. Looking at both of the cities pasts could be an ideal way of finding out.”

  16. The Dérive Evaluating the Experience “We will investigate how from Paris being a pivotal head quarters for the French revolution in 1789, to Coventry’s role in the 2nd World War; being destroyed by German bombers 70 years ago last month, before rising up and sustaining their output of military machines in a time of need. We know believe”

  17. The Dérive Evaluating the Experience “We believe Paris as a city is represented in popular media forms such as film, literature and music as something it may not be. Asking questions such as ‘Why is Coventry not represented in the same way?’” “The photo’s from our Derive show Coventry as a cold, hard-working industrial city.”

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