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WELL...WHAT IS MAPPING, ANYWAYS?

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WHATEVER SET A BELONGS TO

MAPS ARE NEVER ‘OBJECTIVE’

MAPS ARE NEVER ‘SUBJECTIVE’’

MAPS CORRELATE COGNITIVE, DATA, AND GEOGRAPHIC SPACES THROUGH A GRAPHIC REGISTER OF CORRESPONDENCE.

MAPS CORRELATE COGNITIVE, DATA, AND GEOGRAPHIC SPACES THROUGH A GRAPHIC REGISTER OF CORRESPONDENCE.

WHAT THEY EXCLUDE IS JUST AS IMPORTANT (PERHAPS MORESO)THAN WHAT THE INCLUDE.

THE ACT OF MAPPING IS ALREADY A ‘PROJECT IN THE ‘MAKING.’

THE ACT OF MAPPING IS ALREADY A ‘PROJECT IN THE ‘MAKING.’

‘MAPPERS’ ARE ALWAYS IMPLICATED IN MAPS; MAPS ARE BIASED.

THE ACT OF MAPPING IS ALREADY A ‘PROJECT IN THE ‘MAKING.’

‘MAPPERS’ ARE ALWAYS IMPLICATED IN MAPS; MAPS ARE BIASED.

MAPS ESTABLISH FIELDS AND POINTS FOR SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS.

WHEN USED STRATEGICALLY BY ARCHITECTS, MAPS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO ENABLE A FUNDAMENTALLY ARCHITECTURAL VIEW OF THE WORLD.

POTENTIAL OPERATIVE FILTERS

Repetition

Index(ing)

Spacing

Scaling

Nesting

Framing

Projecting

Situating

Translating

Transposing

Dislodging

Revealing

Concealing

Structuring

Orienting

Patterning

Grounding

Forming

Intensifying

Sequencing

Narrating

Distorting

Flattening

Thickening

Enacting

Embedding

Positioning

MAPS ACQUIRE MEANING FROM BOTH THEIR MAKERS AND THE USERS.

WHAT IS ‘LOCALITY?’

ARJUN APADURAI

‘...as these local subjects engage in the social activities of production,representation, and reproduction (as in the work of culture), theycontribute, generally unwittingly, to the creation of contexts that might exceed the existing material and conceptual boundaries of the neighborhood’

IN OTHER WORDS...

THE CULTURAL AND SITE SPECIFICITIES OF URBANITY (”CONTEXT”)

UNFOLD WITHIN A NETWORK OF WHAT THEY WERE “produced from, against,in spite of, and in relation to.”

IN AN ECO-INFORMATIONAL SOCIETY, THE “LOCAL” IS NOT SO SIMPLE.

IN AN ECO-INFORMATIONAL SOCIETY, THE “LOCAL” IS NOT SO SIMPLE.

WHAT IS ‘THERE’ IS NOT ALL THAT IS THERE.

IN AN ECO-INFORMATIONAL SOCIETY, THE “LOCAL” IS NOT SO SIMPLE.

WHAT IS ‘THERE’ IS NOT ALL THAT IS THERE.

“PLACE” IS AN ASSEMBLAGE.

MAPS OPERATE IN BETWEEN THE EMPIRICAL AND THE METAPHYSICAL.

DIAGRAM VS. MAP

DIAGRAM ARE ANALYTICAL.

DIAGRAM ARE ANALYTICAL.

MAPS ARE ANALOGICAL.

DIAGRAMS BREAK DOWN AN OBJECT (BUILDING, HISTORY, SITE, CITY,ETC.) TO ITS FUNDAMENTAL PARTS.

DIAGRAMS BREAK DOWN AN OBJECT (BUILDING, HISTORY, SITE, CITY,ETC.) TO ITS FUNDAMENTAL PARTS.

MAPS SITUATE AN OBJECT WITHIN A WIDER WEB OF RELATIONS.

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