Week
1: Jan 31 - Feb 2
Introduction:
scale, dialectics, contradictions, why mapping now
READING: Lippard, Eco, Smithson, Boylan heights (handouts) for
Thursday 2/2
For discussion on Thursday: what are the distinctions
of these projects? ASSIGNED:
Exercise: Make a textual analysis of any found map. Due 2/9 for class discussion READING:
For 2/9: Dennis Wood, Chapter 5, the Power of Maps (handout) Geoff King, The Map that Precedes the Territory (handout) |
Week 2: Feb 7 and 9
Representing
Power: culture, convention, coding Semiotics of the Map; discussion of Dennis Woods
article Tuesday: visit
Mapping Rooms in Library and Geography Departments Thursday: presentation and deconstruction of found
maps Visualizing
Space (projection histories, perspectives)
Practical bias: navigation
Resulting bias: distortion, projections The new order (from Interpretation of Ordinary Landscape);
God vision and the grid Blank white spaces on the map.
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EXERCISE/ASSIGNMENT
1: Auto-Ethno-Cartograph: Everything you can observe about yourself
onto one page of page of a paper and scanned into a digital file. Due
2/23 See handout for details READING: For 2/14: Time and Space of the Enlightenment
Project by David Harvey; excerpts: Rhizome by Deleuze and Guattari;
Cybernetics (Bateson) in eReserve Brian
Holmes, Maps for the Outside http://ut.yt.t0.or.at/site/index.html
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Week
3: Feb 14 and 16
Whole
Earth: complex structures, patterns and surface grooves: Utopianism; dialectics of mapping: (simultaneously
real and unreal) Social networks and positive conspiracies University tangente http://utangente.free.fr/anewpages/cartes.html Explication: Matthew Ritchie, Spaceship Earth: Fulleršs:
utopian visions A. Kircher, multimedia Interweaving Social Imaginaries: Holmes |
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PROJECT 1: RE-TERRITORIALIZED MAP (or Globe) (RESEARCH EXERCISE: Mapping
displacement: for next
week- one story-use research as foundation of next map_ Handout. Due 3/9
READING: for 2/21: Buck-Morss from Dialectics
of Seeing (eReserves),
and Pickles, "the Over-Coded World: a geneology of modern mapping"
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4: Feb 21 and 23 |
| note new due dates: changes made in the map to accomodate the territory |
Week
5:
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READING
for March 7: Foucault: Eye of Power (eReserves),
Jameson excerpt
sections 5 and 6 only |
Week 6: March 7 and 9
Data maps
and bio-coded bodies: (GPS and Mapping/Visualising Technologies
Chicago surveillance camera www.open-loop.org/public_html/surveillance_html/map.html Photo map Japanese interment camps; Panopticon heat
mapping, discussion heterotopias, panopticonic space
READING
for March 14: Excerpt, Mark Lombardi |
| PROJECT 2: COFLO: Collaborative Flowchart |
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3: TOUR: A tour or embodied time-based maplike-exploratory experience.
Start researching; Topic; the invisible. Tours should be scheduled to
avoid overlaps and be done by Week 10. Handouts for both. |
Week 7: March
14 and 16
Research,
Narrativity, Unrepresentability GIS (in class) Roberts and Schein, "Earth Shattering"
from Pickles, Ground Truth Tracking and Mapping Invisible Webs; Mark Lombardi,
Horowitz Josh On: They Rule, Bunting, Own, Be Owned, or Remain
Invisible: http://www.irational.org/heath/_readme.html,
Lichty, Carnivore Network
DUE: CRITIQUE ASSIGNMENT 2 RE-TERRITORIALIZED MAP READING for March 14: Eyal Weizman, Military Options as Human Planning optional handout J.B. Harley, New England Cartography and the Native Americans Walking/Touring:
Class Visitor Archie Angelo (this week or next) |
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Week
8: March 21 and 23 Cartographic
identities: Boundaries, erasures, overmappings
Finland's
500 years on the map Privilege, position and place on the map, Place Names,
Ethnic Insults, & Ideological Renaming READING: for March 21: excerpts, Kevin Lynch,
Image of the City excerpts from Situationist International texts Discussion/Exercise:
Derive: Handout
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Week 9 March 28 adn 30 Embodied Mappings and
Amateur geographies and SITUATIONISTS!! (reading and observing spaces) cognitive maps: Wayfaring and
Interdisciplinarity- Mapping cultural markings: Engaged research in the
urban site.
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READINGS for next week: First Stutterings of Precarias a La Deriva, Sebastian and Maribel Corrubias, Adrift Through the Knowledge Machine;and Mapping memory by Lori Napoleon |
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Week
9: March 28 and 30 Local Research
and Lines of Flight: History, time and Intimacy
Class Visitor: Erin McGonigle from Ex-plo Personal softwares and Mind Mapping
FREE MIND: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Charting experience and observation.
Mapping Habitus READ: Kabyle House or the World Upside Down by Bourdieu over WEEK
VACATION; write a little bit in blog about this fascinating article.
Write about it in relation to the place where you are staying. Close
observation; how is this place coded?
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4 and 6 NO SCHOOL!!! |
Week
10: April 11 and 13
All
remaining tours must be done over next two weeks. Exhibition
in hallway of projects to date Due:
final Project plan. Handout and Meetings READ:
Lynch: Some References to Orientation (aesthetics) and
Brody,
Maps of Dreams (senses)
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Week
11: April 18 and 20
Close to
the Ground: Lo and Vernacular Technologies
John Rennie Short and alternative geographies;
GPS v. LESP; dowsing: smells of London website
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Week 12: April 25 and 27 Continue
special and remaining topics, and research in progress |
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Week 13: May 2 and 4
TOURS
AND WORKSHOP
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Week 14: May 9 and 11
WORKSHOPS; PRELIMINARY CRITIQUES |
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Week 15:
May 16 and 18
DUE ALL ASSIGNMENTS: CRITIQUE AND DISCUSSION |