Fall 2016
Design Studio 3 - Assignment 13
How can designers Map? How does mapping lead to new ways of seeing?
This Unit is about exploring the visual language of maps and mapping as a way to express interests, opinions, observations, or points of view about a physical site and its attending associations, stories, qualities, and intersections.In the simplest terms, maps are print- or screen-based images that represent land, boundaries, location, or geography. They are produced by cartographers and work to simplify and reduce physical reality into useful and useable 2-dimensional tools. But some maps describe political, social, artistic, even personal data; they can be factual or fictional; they can be subversive and persuasive. Maps can help to make arguments, point out problems, express quantity, and identify detail. Maps can aggregate one kind of information while omitting another altogether. Maps can act like a lens on a place or frame a point of view.
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