JUXTAPOSITION OF CITY IDENTITIES Mapping Tilburg Through Psychogeographical Perspective of International Students by Meric Cukurova

The city is not simply a physical space but also a cultural and social space that is continually being constructed and reconstructed by its inhabitants. Unlike a fixed city image, mapping practice represents a temporary city that is open to change from an individual’ perspective. In that sense, I try to explore new ways of seeing the city through the social imaginaries of people from different cultures by co-creating with international student. As a tactical field, public space is an imaginary space that resists one dominant image of the city where participants produce meaning continually through observing and following their emotions in the urban environment. Aiming to understand how international students create meaning and how the city of Tilburg is constructed through multiple ways of mapping in three areas -Dwaalgebied, Winkelgebied, and Veemarktkwartier-, I focus on the performative aspects of mapping and challenge traditional mapping practices through psychogeographical and experimental video mapping.

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repeated crowdedness

In the red area, Ira was surrounded by shops and people. The urban life in her peripheral vision. Sometimes she was fast, sometimes slow. Streets were crowded, she searched for calmer places. She got used to the people, while spending time here, walking here. She was part of this crowdedness. They were doing their own things, ignoring her and just going their own way, but sometimes she tried to socialize and talked with them. She was surrounded by urban life, she tried to see the details in the crowded.

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Meric Cukurova - JUXTAPOSITION OF CITY IDENTITIES Mapping Tilburg Through Psychogeographical Perspective of International Students - 2024