Maps

• Maps are not the territory. They are an abstraction that help us to do something.
• Once you've made a map, you have to use it to
• From Peter Hall
• My interpretation from OOO - data becomes facts and facts become maps, but you can only collect a subset of data and facts require interpretation
• Bismarck conference - a map with blank space in Africa helped colonial powers carve up Africa
• Is mapping un-ecological? Sees things as resources. You cannot map everything so things will always be missed...A fundamentally flawed way of understanding the world.
• Blue marble photo - It's not a map - it's showing that the earth is fragile and something that can't be mapped (?)
• Situated wickedness - an oxymoron? Natalie Jeremijenko / Pond looks at situated knowledge
• References
  • Weaknesses of Wickedness - Noordegraaf et al.
  • Jeremy Krampton
  • Mark Monmonier - How to lie with maps
  • BBC - program on maps
  • Are we human
  • RNDR / Lust
  • James Corner - The Agency of Mapping
  • Hector Design Studio - Mifflin Square Park

Last update: 2022-02-26 22:23