mappings lecture raul marino eth zürich
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Mappings: Mental Maps, Schematic representation of geography, data, phenomenoma and urban realities.TRANSCRIPT
MAPPINGSMAPAS, TERRITORIOS e IMÁGENES MENTALESRaúl Marino Zamudio
Architect and Urban Designer ETH ZürichCredit 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 nombradaThe 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)
http://www.big.dk/projects/ldk/ldk.html
¿COMO
REPRESENTAMOS
NUESTRA CIUDAD?
¿COMO COMUNICAMOS
EFECTIVAMENTE
NUESTRAS IDEAS DE
DISEÑO E
INTERVENCION?
¿Hay distintas formas
de procesar
gráficamente la
información?
MAPPINGS
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