Abstract
In the artistic avantgarde of postwar Paris, Ivan Chtcheglov introduced the dérive, drifting through the body of the city, as a procedure of artistic research to take note of the “atmosphere” of built environments and of their effect on our ways to live and live together. Mapping the city in a whole new way, the situationists captured psychogeographic contours and showed the city space as subdivided into “unities of ambiance”. This analytic side was linked to the projection of an architecture that would house a new active and cohesive society where citizens would engage in creating “situations”—temporary settings for a shared collective time. Translated into our contemporary context, dérive and psychogeography are expanded, and along with other artistic research practices, enable new ways to explore, understand, and map the city, and also to envision and project the urban habitat. This potential of artistic research becomes apparent as the city is no longer considered primarily as a built environment, but rather as a habitat, in which the question “how will we live together” is constantly negotiated. In this shift, artistic research, architecture, and urban design enter into novel collaborations with a common aim of ecological, economic, and societal sustainability.
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