Shifts in Mapping: Maps as a Tool of Knowledge

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2021

Shifts in Mapping

Maps as a Tool of Knowledge

Edited by: Christine Schranz

Volume 54 in the series Sozial- und Kulturgeographie

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839460412

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About this book

Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving force in this field and change our view of the world; how we communicate, navigate, and consume globally. Questions of privacy, authorship, and economic interests are highly relevant to cartography's practices. So how to deal with such powers and what is the critical role of cartography in it? How might a bottom-up perspective (and actions) in map-making change conception of a geopolitical space?

Author / Editor information

Christine Schranz (Dr.) is a designer and holds a PhD in Theater, Film and Media Studies from Universität Wien (Austria), in cooperation with Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Switzerland). She is head of programme research at the Institute of Contemporary Design Practices at Academy of Art and Design FHNW in Basel. Currently she is conducting a research project in »Commons in Design«, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
TABLE OF CONTENTS Open Access Download PDF	8
PREFACE Open Access Download PDF	11
RESEARCH INTEREST Open Access Download PDF	12
ON THE SYMPOSIUM AND EXHIBITION Open Access Download PDF	14
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Open Access Download PDF	16
I SHIFTS IN MAPPING
Introduction to the essay section. Shifts in Mapping – Two Concepts which have Changed the World View Christine Schranz Open Access Download PDF	21
Atlas of Indexical Cities: A Personal Search Engine for the World Diana Alvarez-Marin Open Access Download PDF	39
Reflections on the Cartographic Languages When collectively mapping possible worlds Paul Schweizer and Severin Halder Open Access Download PDF	65
Critical Map Visualizations Ulrike Felsing and Max Frischknecht Open Access Download PDF	95
The Digital Memory of Palmyra – Maps and Open Source Data as Decolonization Tools Christine Schranz Open Access Download PDF	125
(How) can data images be critical? Birgit Schneider Open Access Download PDF	157
Design through Graduation Léonore Bonaccini and Xavier Fourt Open Access Download PDF	189
Radical Cartography Philippe Rekacewicz Open Access Download PDF	209
Biographies Open Access Download PDF	233
II SHAPING THE INVISIBLE WORLD
Introduction to the Exhibition. STRATEGIES OF NEOGEOGRAPHY IN RECENT MEDIA ART Boris Magrini Open Access Download PDF	241
Works/Artists in the Exhibition Open Access Download PDF	281

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 294
Keywords: Mapping; Epistemology; Aesthetically Critical Practice; Geopolitics; Media; Society; City; Social Geography; Cultural Geography; Urban Studies; Design; Geography

eBook

Published: November 27, 2021
ISBN: 9783839460412