[PLOTS / DIY Balloon Mapping kit]
Today the third post in my Mediated Cityscapes series was published on Creative Applications and this instalment focuses on DIY cartography. Drawing on a body of research related to the 'Technology and the City' CCIT course I developed last year, the article schematizes a few general approaches for classifying mapping projects and surveys a range of key projects. In the piece I play pretty fast and loose with what falls under the umbrella of 'cartography' as I was ultimately more interested in discussing provocative work than niggling over credentials, expertise and playing the 'just whose discipline is it?' game. One thing I don't mention in the article is how much web mapping is/has been driven by innovation within journalism – The Knight News Challenge has been awarded to so many projects relevant to this discussion (e.g. Ushahidi, Dotspotting, etc.). Finally, the piece closes out with a tangential discussion about some recent thinking by Golan Levin on 'situated visualization' – I plan on coming back to this topic in the future as I think Levin is really on to something with the related series of projects he has begun.
As always, comments and emails related to the piece would be received with great enthusiasm.
Chema Cobo
Marc Chagall
Chema Madoz
