New issue of dpp!
"The papers in this issue came about as a result of a workshop, ‘Mapping ecologies of place: local, virtual, digital’ at the University of Western Sydney in 2011, convened with the support of the Centre for Cultural Research. The workshop explored an emergent, rapidly evolving field that is influencing many different disciplines and practices, including design. A range of speakers considered the potential of new mapping practices, as well as some of the limitations of the digital as an interface and platform – there was a sense that whilst digital techniques may be transferable and universal, cultural details are often local and non-transferable. There was also a sense that mapping needed to be more critically explored as a set of practices around social enablement and power formations. These concerns foreground potential links and commonalities between critical cartography and design, and highlight some emerging issues for design concerning: what is mapped and why; mapping as a practice of framing and re-framing the spatio-temporal; the power and agency of the map itself as a designed object. The papers published here seek to address some these issues, offering a range of perspectives that engage with thinking about sustainable design practices, mapping, the map and imagined futures."
Read it all here.
"The papers in this issue came about as a result of a workshop, ‘Mapping ecologies of place: local, virtual, digital’ at the University of Western Sydney in 2011, convened with the support of the Centre for Cultural Research. The workshop explored an emergent, rapidly evolving field that is influencing many different disciplines and practices, including design. A range of speakers considered the potential of new mapping practices, as well as some of the limitations of the digital as an interface and platform – there was a sense that whilst digital techniques may be transferable and universal, cultural details are often local and non-transferable. There was also a sense that mapping needed to be more critically explored as a set of practices around social enablement and power formations. These concerns foreground potential links and commonalities between critical cartography and design, and highlight some emerging issues for design concerning: what is mapped and why; mapping as a practice of framing and re-framing the spatio-temporal; the power and agency of the map itself as a designed object. The papers published here seek to address some these issues, offering a range of perspectives that engage with thinking about sustainable design practices, mapping, the map and imagined futures."
Read it all here.
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