MAPPINGS
MAPAS, TERRITORIOS e IMÁGENES MENTALES Raúl Marino Zamudio Architect and Urban Designer ETH Zürich Credit Image: Zoografia Karekou ETH
MAPPINGS charts the ascendancy of mapping as a powerful interdisciplinary strategy, one that links people and places, data and organizations, and physical and virtual environments. Traditionally written by history's victors, maps are gaining new currency in our information-saturated age as a means of making arguments and processes visible. Mapping technologies today are as diverse as the agendas driving them: social networks are mapped with dynamic digital interfaces; buildings are mapped with lasers; cities and regions are mapped by satellite. Peter Hall, 2009
En 1954 Jorge Luis Borges publicaba en Buenos Aires la segunda edición de Historia Universal de la infamia. En dicho volumen, bajo el capítulo titulado "Etcétera", aparecía un fragmento atribuido a un tal Suárez Miranda y a una obra titulada Viajes de Varones Prudentes ["libro cuarto, cap. XIV, Lérida, 1658" ]. Dicho fragmento se titulaba "Del rigor en la ciencia" y era el siguiente:
...En aquel Imperio, el Arte de la Cartografía logró tal Perfección que el mapa de una sola Provincia ocupaba toda una Ciudad, y el mapa del imperio, toda una Provincia. Con el tiempo, esos Mapas Desmesurados no satisfacieron y los Colegios de Cartógrafos levantaron un Mapa del Imperio, que tenía el tamaño del Imperio y coincidía puntualmente con él. Menos adictas al estudio de la Cartografía, las generaciones siguientes entendieron que ese dilatado Mapa era Inútil y no sin Impiedad lo entregaron a las Inclemencias del Sol y de los Inviernos. En los desiertos del Oeste perduran despedazadas Ruinas del Mapa, habitadas por animales y por mendigos; en todo el País no hay otra reliquia de las Disciplinas Geográficas.
BREVE HISTORIA DE LA CARTOGRAFIA
Copy (1475) of St. Isidore's TO map of the world.
Mediterranean chart fourteenth century
A celestial map from the 17th century, by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit.
El mapa no es el territorio, y el nombre no es la cosa nombrada The map–territory relationship Gregory Bateson, in "Form, Substance and Difference," from Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972), elucidates the essential impossibility of knowing what the territory is, as any understanding of it is based on some representation:
We say the map is different from the territory. But what is the territory? Operationally, somebody went out with a retina or a measuring stick and made representations which were then put on paper. What is on the paper map is a representation of what was in the retinal representation of the man who made the map; and as you push the question back, what you find is an infinite regress, an infinite series of maps. The territory never gets in at all. [‌] Always, the process of representation will filter it out so that the mental world is only maps of maps, ad infinitum.
The development of electronic media blurs the line between map and territory by allowing for the simulation of ideas as encoded in electronic signals, as Baudrillard argues in Simulacra & Simulation:
Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: A hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory precession of simulacra - that engenders the territory. (Baudrillard, 1994, p. 1)
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¿COMO REPRESENTAMOS NUESTRA CIUDAD?
¿COMO COMUNICAMOS EFECTIVAMENTE NUESTRAS IDEAS DE DISEÑO E INTERVENCION?
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MAPPINGS BIBLIOGRAFIA
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Mappings Cosgrove, Denis Reaktion Books, 1999
Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information Lima, Manuel Princeton Architectural Press, 2011
Atlas of Radial Cartography Mogel, Lizet Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, 2008
Else/Where: Mapping — New Cartographies of Networks and Territories Hall, Peter University of Minessota Design Institute, 2006
Information Graphics Redgen, Sandra Editorial Taschen, 2012
Addis Through the Looking Glass, Marino Raul, et al. ETH Zurich, 2008