DIY and Counter-Cartography - cct335-w11
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DIY and Counter-Cartography - cct335-w11
Josh On’s “They Rule” (2004) - http://www.theyrule.net/ DIY and Counter-Cartography Kazys Varnelis and Leah Meisterlin - http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/thinktank/tt_varnelis.html The Invisible City: Design in the Age of Intelligent Maps (Some) Takeaway point from “The Invisible City” 1. Maps are intelligent, “don’t just represent spatial relationships... reveal conditions” 2. Cartography is now about “convention rather than invention” 3. Con of ubiquitous geodata: tethered to big companies like Google and Microsoft 4. Another con: we get spoon fed information about space/navigation (echoing our reliance on search engines for research) 5. Maps can mobilize people politcally 6. Citizens can take charge of data, research and prove points 7. Designers (potentially) have the skill set to branch into cartography. Denis Cosgrove - “Carto-City” “Conceptually, the map has either preceded the physical presence of the city or served to regulate and coordinate its continued existence. St. Petersburg, Washington D.C., New Delhi, Brasilia, countless fortress and colonial cities, existed on paper before they had any material expression. Paris, Rome, Vienna, Amsterdam, Jerusalem—virtually every great city— either has been reconstructed or expanded by means of a great plan.” pg. 148 Denis Cosgrove - “Carto-City” “Early modern and Enlightenment city planning saw in geometry a medium of legibility. The city was to be read as a text for its rulers, its citizens and its visitors. Printed urban maps expressed and reinforced the city’s legibility.” pg. 152 Central Pacific Railroad Map (1898) source: http://www.cprr.org/Museum/Maps/ The Rationalized Landscape Harry Beck London Underground ‘Tube Map’ 1933 “‘Scientific’ cartography’s inability to capture the contemporary city has, however, opened new possibliities for urban mapping” pg. 150 “The goal of rendering legible the complex, dynamic and living entity that is a city remains an urgent one. But today’s acute awareness that cartographic images can never be innocent vehicles of information dissolves neat distinctions between celebratory and regulatory urban maps. Urban space and cartographic space remain inseperable; as each is transformed their relationships atler.” pg. 157 The Parisian Arcades Index – Urban Taxonomy “Counter Cartographies” – Brian Holmes “The Internet is the vector of a new geography – not only because it conjurs up virtual realities, but also because it shapes our lives in society, transforms our cities, and shifts our perception along with the ground beneath our feet. Networks have become the dominant structures of cultural, economic and military power. Yet this power remains largely invisible. How can this network society be represented? And how can it be navigated, appropriated, reshaped in its turn?” pg. 20 http://www.caida.org/research/topology/as_core_network/pics/ascoreApr2003.gif CAIDA Skitter Graph Hackitectura - http://hackitectura.net/blog/en/2004/cartografia-del-estrecho/ Cartografía crítica del Estrecho de Gibraltar (2004) “Counter Cartographies” – Brian Holmes “Critical and dissident cartographies arise against the background of these dominant mapping technologie. They appear as counter-behaviors in Michel Foucault’s sense: deliberately denormalized refusals of the reason of State, elaborated with the very tools that consolidate the control society.” pg. 25 To speak broadly, how might we define DIY cartography and counter cartography? How do these terms differ and how are they similar? DIY Cartography Counter Cartography -’bottom up’ -addressing civic oversight -creating open alternatives to propreitary geodata -public resource -resistance to dominant narratives -map-based activism -(possibly) polemical -not only illuminating but perception altering (many other names: neogreography, citizen geography, where 2.0, participatory mapping, collaborative mapping, etc.) (eg. the GDP cartograms from last week, used to prove/suggest that the first world/ second world/third world paradigm is actually better expressed as overdeveloped/underdeveloped) http://www.weeplaces.com/ FourSquare (2009) Facebook Places (2010) Dopplr (2007) OpenStreetMap (2004) Compare to http://bit.ly/g2Mzc0 http://vimeo.com/2598878 http://www.fixmystreet.com/ FixMyStreet (2007) http://www.toronto.ca/open/catalogue.htm Open Data http://vimeo.com/13764646 A Case for Open Data in Transit http://la.everyblock.com/ EveryBlock (2008) – aka what would happen if you aggregated everything? Stamen Design – http://oakland.crimespotting.org Oakland Crimespotting (2007) Spatial Information Design Lab - http://www.spatialinformationdesignlab.org/projects.php?id=16 Million Dollar Blocks (2005) Michael Cook – http://vanishingpoint.ca/toronto-sewers Toronto Sewer Map (2003-) http://bit.ly/gzVyEI Google Maps appropriated for London student protests (2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSltSvVeYHY “Fleeing riot police on foot? There’s an app for that ...” – Sukey