Category: Unit 2
Positions Through Contextualising
Building on previous iterations, I started a medium exploration, folding my handmande countries’ names into a zine and I experimenting with the shapes of countries’ sea areas.
The resulting patterns relate to topographic representation or expansion of sea areas, and the zine format to folded maps.
Annotated Bibliography
The six texts below are references gathered during the Positions Through Contextualising brief.
The extended critical analyses of two of these references are on pages 7 and 8 of the annotated bibliography PDF at the end of this post.
Written Response for Positions Through Iterating
Maps are projections. They project the surface of the Earth and displaying useful information like geographic locations and borders.
But these projections are not neutral. From the choice of projection method to translate spherical information into a plane and its resulting distortions, to the choice of information to be included, maps are tools of power that have helped shape nations, naturalise borders and territory. Therefore, instead of a representation of reality, maps project the intention of those who create them.
They are typically seen as a definitive piece of information, but we often forget that countries are fictions, and every border was once a disputed one.
How can mapping, or counter-mapping, interfere in this power dynamics? Can it show the nuances and reveal new knowledge behind apparently objective data?
Continue reading Written Response for Positions Through IteratingPositions Through Iterating
I chose to revisit the Shipping Forecast work and during the first week I iterated on different mapping styles to show the FitzRoy sea area and its surrounding countries’ Exclusive Economic Zones.