Transcriptions and psychogeographies Movement as an urban design method

Abstract

The drift, or dérive, technique used by the Situationist International, is put into practice in the city of Ayacucho, as it traverses the spaces of memory left by the latent armed conflict in Peru (1980-2000). The search and analysis of old aerial photographs and maps obtained from georeferenced information systems are carried out to distinguish the physical-environmental changes in different units of the environment (unités d'ambiance). Finally, reference is made to the work of Bernard Tschumi in the original publication "The Manhattan Transcripts," which is related to research on the relationship between event-object-movement. Here, the method is abstracted to graphically represent the obtained spatial sequences, creating a new metalinguistic narrative beyond a single dimension. The process of spatial exploration results in a psychogeographic guide of Ayacucho in three sequences of events during the years of the conflict, considering it as an urban matter in the relationship between city, object, and event.

Keywords: Transcriptions, psychogeographies, armed conflict, units of environment.