This workshop situates illustration within a psychogeographic context. It encourages the use different senses and drawing methods, engaging those who are interested in working with sites to think about how these can be used and applied differently at different locations in future projects or their own practice.

In the workshop participants explore a site through a guided dérive creating a layered observational drawing. Experiencing how movement, sensory perception and social dynamics shape understandings of a site. Through drawing and reflection, participants engage with how illustration can act as a method for recording and interpreting a place, engaging with core psychogeographic concepts in an accessible and practical way.

The workshop introduces core psychogeography ideas:

The dérive - a method of drifting through urban space to uncover affective and sensory layers.

The Palimpsest – metaphorically through a way of understanding sites as layered in time, memory and trace/history.

The Flâneur - a French term used by Charles Baudelaire to identify an observer of modern urban life.

The workshop is structured to encourage multi-disciplinary thinking and working methods, it aims to be experiential, collaborative and reflective, encouraging curiosity, direct engagement and creative risk taking.