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Scene City 2025 – Parkour for the mind


“It was one of the most inspiring diverse improv sessions I‘ve ever experienced. Lots of new personal realisations. Snailprov was born.“

Scene City is a novel form of improv-powered urban exploration, with players taking a haphazard route round a city playing scenes inspired by what they see and feel as they go.

It is a form of psychogeography, which has its roots in left-wing artistic ideas from 50s and 60s France. But, put simply, it is about using our imaginations and autonomy to enhance city life.

Players might, for example, re-imagine a parking meter as a droid, a view over the 4th district as the ruins of ancient Troy or an apartment block as the little known birthplace of Viennese karate.

The prettiest bits of a city are rarely the most inspiring. So we tend to go off the beaten path to find more compelling stories inspired by underpasses, skips, air-conditioning units and abandoned bicycles. ■

Will try and organise a session or two over summer. It’d be handy to have some help organising as backup.

Scene City pics

Stories, lectures and documentaries
Get off the beaten path
Walking with attitude (BBC)
The London Perambulator (John Rogers)
Walkers in the City—and Everywhere (JSTOR)
Psychogeography: A Purposeful Drift Through the City (MIT)
Post-digital psychogeography (Herbert Wright)

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