WALK THE SEMIOSPHERE
Put simply, psychogeography is the exploration of the psychological effects of an urban environment. The urban environment has expanded into the semiosphere, the sphere of semiosis in which sign processes operate in the set of all interconnected Umwelten. Semiosphere comes into being when any two Umwelten are communicating. More than this, psychogeography is a political statement, defiance of the capitalist system, a seizure of power and a mode of play. Besides, walking is good for your health. But you knew that already, right?
THE LISBON OBSERVATORY
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is located in the very heart of the Bairro Alto - From here, we can plan and then go on a Dérive, and when we come back, we share our experiences and produce our output. In the process, we can figure out how to take it further. The observatory is the place where all threads connect.

UNITARY URBANISM

Unitary Urbanism - the synthesis of art and technology that we call for, must be constructed according to certain new values of life, values which now need to be distinguished and disseminated. It demands the rejection of functional, Euclidean values in architecture, as well as the separation between art and its surroundings. 

DÉRIVE

In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.
​But the dérive includes both this letting go and its necessary contradiction: the domination of psychogeographical variations by the knowledge and calculation of their possibilities.

PERMANENT PLAY

When freedom is practised in a closed circle, it fades into a dream, becomes a mere image of itself. The ambiance of play is by nature unstable. At any moment, "ordinary life" may prevail again. The geographical limitation of play is even more striking than its temporal limitation. Every game takes place within the boundaries of its own spatial domain.