Social Practice Powerplay Team 2:
Elif Peksert---Sophia Hulsman---Loïs Weeber

Week 1
Notes: Introduction to Mapping

Cartography / Mapping
Method to categorize & generate knowledge (also physical and emotional experiences)

⁃ Documenting
⁃ Creating
⁃ Speculating

Example: Cave drawing (hunting scene, Magura Cave)
- Ways of inhabiting the world that go away back in history
- Important events of Society, people who live around the area.
- Understood as narratives of the practices of living of the people in the area.
- Essentially come from observing and illustrating:
o The bodies
o The environment
o Rituals of everyday life

Maps & imagining territory
Ways to inhabiting the world

Tradition of drawing the world in a circular shape, represents the universe > old tradition
Not aligned with our understanding of sciences today (for example: map is upside down according to the way we understand compass today)

Representations of things (the Chinese map, where the red dots represents island.)

Measurements and forms are not accurate > but, it nerve the network of relations in priority and significance.

Map maker:
⁃ Their location
⁃ Their viewpoint
⁃ Thoughts of knowledge that is important to put together > as to represent a universe of knowledge

Corners of the map > representation, symbolic (Garden of Eden, map Italy)

Question:
⁃ What is drawn in the center?
⁃ What is drawn on the margins?
⁃ Who’s point of view does this map represent?

Mapping the imaginary
Not always geography, places or a projection of something physical > maps could also be mutual or imaginary
Map of matrimony:
States of emotion, Milestones, Stages of intimacy’s as geographical features > journey, conceptualized.

Represents a way of thinking. Reinforces certain form of norm and instead of attitudes and desires. Might be socially or culturally constructed

Question:
⁃ What information is implied in the maps?
⁃ What kinds of norms are implied?
⁃ What kind of forms of living or promoted through these Maps?
⁃ How does the form the shape, the symbol and their interrelation refer to a certain form of life?
⁃ How do they communicate desires?
⁃ How are these universes constructed visually?

Mapping as (re)imagining
Maps: ways of inhabiting the world.

Stereotypical images vs. own mind experiences.
No form of geographical correctness, but contains information about the city (from this persons; viewpoints, experiences, desires, knowledge about specific place). > Psychological Paris (by Stanley Milgrim)

indigenous cartography in Acre >
Importance: Planning tools for protection and conservation and management of the natural resources of the area
Show information that’s missing in official map
Represent and show ideas and opinions and their references of the people who live in the area.
This is not concerned with geographical correctness, in way of measurement, space and distances. There to show important elements that might be missing in official maps.

Body map by Children in combat situations >
Map of persons experience
Draw on the map in form of trauma experiences that people had before, during or after a conflict.
The show invisible factors that might affected people or violent situations.
A part outside the body represents an indication of internal struggle to heal.

Mapping / cartography = a practice of discussing and generating relationships between nodes, infills, which might be physical, mutual or imaginary.
Maps could make relations and processes in place and seem visible.
Maps is a tool to reimagine worlds

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