How do you engage with the city you call home? Is it just a place you pass through to get to your required destination? Do you ever pause to reflect and take in your surroundings every once in a while?

You might be interested to know that there is actually a group of intellectuals from the 1960s who championed the idea of taking a step back from the spectacle in front of us. They spent most of their time protesting the idea that our cities are just a bunch of profit-motivated capitalistic superstructures. This group, known as the Situationist International, instead encouraged play and resistance as we walk through our cities.

Sounds like an interesting idea right? Well, here with us now to contemplate the notion of getting ‘lost’ in your own city is Stephen Dobson, Professor and Dean of Education and the Arts, at CQUniversity Australia.