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Werner, Pauline (2023)

(Re)imagining the City through Contemporary Psychogeography: A Study of Belonging among Foreign Students in The Hague

Bachelor thesis | Urban Studies (BA)

This thesis seeks to explore the potential of creative mapping as a psychogeographic research approach to garner an increasingly nuanced understanding of the production of belonging among international students in The Hague. Building on the theoretical approach of psychogeography and an avantgarde conception of the urban, as outlined by the Situationist International, this work explores the spatial configuration of belonging. Through collaborative and creative mapping of the mundane and everyday spaces of the urban environment, traces of belonging and home making are explored. The work is studying the subject of international students detached from the university setting and putting it into the context of the urban environment. Through juxtaposing the results of the research with critique put forward by the Situationist International in the 1960s, their contemporary relevance is reinforced. Additionally, the employment of a psychogeographic research approach illustrated the...Show moreThis thesis seeks to explore the potential of creative mapping as a psychogeographic research approach to garner an increasingly nuanced understanding of the production of belonging among international students in The Hague. Building on the theoretical approach of psychogeography and an avantgarde conception of the urban, as outlined by the Situationist International, this work explores the spatial configuration of belonging. Through collaborative and creative mapping of the mundane and everyday spaces of the urban environment, traces of belonging and home making are explored. The work is studying the subject of international students detached from the university setting and putting it into the context of the urban environment. Through juxtaposing the results of the research with critique put forward by the Situationist International in the 1960s, their contemporary relevance is reinforced. Additionally, the employment of a psychogeographic research approach illustrated the potential of visual methodologies for exploring and representing alternative narratives, subjective perspectives, and embodied experiences.Show less

Author

Werner, Pauline

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

K.K. krakowska Rodrigues

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en