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(+/+) Map of mutualisms between Berkeley/Farralon Islands
Kimberly Fong, Arielle Steere, Katarina Ceguerra
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Community Design Engagement Mapping Processes in San Fransisco
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Reflection Zine on This Is Not An Atlas Textile Map Project
Stella Singer
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This experimental mapping project situates the human populated Bay Area with the wildlife reserve of the Farallon Islands, and shows interconnectiveness and mutualisms. The map involves experimenting with various materials that link the two sites. While presumed to be untouched and wild, these islands are deeply affected by human nature. To explore how colonization of the Bay Area created complex web and mess of mutualisms, a timeline was initially created, showing how the island was initially exploited. As a point of reference to contrast the Farralons, Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley was chosen in opposition, a park created on a landfill, that looks out at the Farallons. Both are deeply affected by the webs of trash dumped in the Bay Area. A symbolic web was installed in Cesar Chavez based off this research.
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There is growing need to reform approaches to architecture; accomodating environmental concerns that come from material extraction and well as aw-knowledging a breadth of community values outside the role of the architect as a single practitioner.
What is this best way to represent and execute a design proposal within this framework for re-use and collective design?
How can a site
be assessed, sourced and composed
communally.not be a projection of Utopianism,
but a realistic reflection of social,
civic and ecological needs of
reparation at the sites.value consequences of composition
over the objects of composition.be designed and sourced with
temporality and feasibility in mind
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Reflection zine on This Is Not
An Atlas Project.
Minizine format, free to
share and reprint!
What forms of conventional cartography is the counter-cartography working to critique, resist, subvert, or unthink?
What sorts of social relations or structures of power is this counter-cartography trying to make visible?
What kinds of tools (visual or otherwise) does the counter-cartography utilize in order to shift the viewer’s
understanding and experience of the world?
Why is the intervention the counter-cartography seeks to make important?
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Mapping processes have been reconceptualised:
Cartography does not merely represent, but rather generates
something that results from the involved persons' relation. By
emphasizing the importance of haptic perception in mapmaking,
this mapping is about reintroducing sensitivity to the production
of geographical knowledge
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This mapping project, though working in a singular community
on a fairly small scale, creates a guideline/precedent for cartographic
tools that empower populations that traditional mapping leaves behind.
It opens up a world of sensitive interaction with the environment on a
more intimate level, which deepens and diversifies our understanding of
the world and also reaches to include greater swaths of people. The project
demonstrates that mapping made tangible and physical leads to incredible
insight and opportunities for inclusive research. Research that functions as
a learning experience for both researchers and participants. It shows the
movement from uninvolved researcher to practitioner and researcher as
participant, and demonstrates that this type of work is equally as
important as “objective” research.