In this workshop, you will become a graphic explorer.

Flâneur is a French term, made famous by Charles Baudelaire in the late XIX century, that refers to someone who wanders in no hurry, experiencing and ‘feeling’ the landscape surroundings.

Later on, in 1953, the French philosopher Guy Debord theorised a new methodology of investigation of urban space. “Psychogeography” abandons traditional codes of analysis for a multisensory and affective approach to spaces revealing forgotten or marginalised aspects. Its main tool – the dérive [lit. drifting] – is a technique of wandering without objectives, seeking for the unusual and the unexpected. The Situationists’ visual maps, produced to record the lived experience, show how the space is perceived as unitary and yet made of a personal selection and connection of fragments: displaced images, letterings and arrows.

By playing with the grid-layout of the Domaine, we will look for new ways of understanding and visualising space, as if we were real flâneurs. The ultimate goal will be that of creating your personal map of the Domaine, with sites and routes that go beyond the usual typical points of interest, leaving to the future visitors multiple possible ways to experience its 150 hectares.

In the age of Google Maps and data collection, you will instead train your capacity of getting lost, of looking at what previously did not catch your eye and of making new connections. You will also become fluent in the graphic language of synthesising, coding and abstracting. We will work hands-on combining elements picked from the natural environment, analogic techniques such as collage, Letraset, marker pens, paper, and xerography. 

Through our investigation into different modes of graphic design, we will offer a new perspective on the physical landscape.