Shifts in Mapping: Maps as a Tool of Knowledge

by Christine Schranz (Editor)

Overview

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 the conception of a geopolitical space?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837660418
Publication date:	11/27/2021
Series:	Social and Cultural Geography
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)

About the Author

Christine Schranz (Dr.) studied scenography (MA) and visual communication (diploma degree), both at Zurich University of the Arts. She 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). Other research activities include fellowships at the Archaeologies of Media and Technology (AMT) research group at the Winchester School of Art - University of Southampton and the Chair of Art Theory & Curating at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen as well as a doctoral fellowship at the Chair of Visual Arts at TU Berlin.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS 8
PREFACE 11
RESEARCH INTEREST 12
ON THE SYMPOSIUM AND EXHIBITION 14
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 16
Introduction to the essay section. Shifts in Mapping - Two Concepts which have Changed the World View 21
Atlas of Indexical Cities: A Personal Search Engine for the World 39
Reflections on the Cartographic Languages When collectively mapping possible worlds 65
Critical Map Visualizations 95
The Digital Memory of Palmyra - 125
(How) can data images be critical? 157
Design through Graduation 189
Radical Cartography 209
Biographies 233
Introduction to the Exhibition. STRATEGIES OF NEOGEOGRAPHY IN RECENT MEDIA ART 241
Works/Artists in the Exhibition 281