About Mapping

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About Mapping Stellepolari for Paesaggi Migranti May 2017


Why making a map?





Eduard Imhof



Denis Wood


2.2 les résultats du tr ansect données brutes 2.2.1 la terre est le territoire A chaque point d’échantillonnage, on a récolté quelques pincées de terre. Sans chercher à en faire une analyse pédologique rigoureuse, ces échantillons nous donnent un aperçu de la diversité des types d’humus, de leur richesse en bases nutritives, de leur régime hydrique et de leur aération. Symboliquement, ces échantillons donnent une diversité de couleurs et de textures, une palette intéressante qui nous rappelle, avec Alberto Magnaghi, que « le territoire est une œuvre d’art »…

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The map: a tool towards the project


(...) The conditions around which a project develops originate with what is selected and prioritized in the map, what is subsequently left aside or ignored, how the chosen mate­rial is schematized, indexed and framed, and how the synthesis of the graphic field invokes semantic, symbolic and instrumental content. Thus, the various cartographic procedures of selection, schematization and synthesis make the map already a project in the making. This is why mapping is never neutral, passive or without consequence; on the con­trary, mapping is perhaps the most formative and creative act of any design process, first disclosing and then staging the conditions for the emergence of new realities.

“The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention.” James Corner, 1999


Kevin Lynch






Richard Long




Smellmap: Amsterdam by Kate McLean




Exemple of mapping process: from in-situ exploration to synthesis






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