Main entry:

Paez, Roger, author.

Title & Author:

Operative mapping : maps as design tools / Roger Paez.

Publication:

New York : Actar Publishers ; [Barcelona] : ELISAVA, 2019.

Description:

327 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-323).
Concept: the operative potential of mapping. Operative mapping -- Two maps -- The concept of operative mapping -- Operative maps and diagrammatic practices -- Positivity, expressivity and operativity -- The map as a medium system -- T4 Mapping the map -- Mapping begets further mappings -- Contemporary redefinitions of the map -- Structure, process, performance -- Critical cartography -- Urban derives: critical mapping practices -- Post-representational cartography -- Augmented mapping -- Scope: re-envisioning maps. Toward a contemporary imaginary -- Eidetic atlas -- Appropriation: constructing reality by claiming it -- Measure: knowledge in measuring -- Narrative: map as text -- Geogram: inscribable earth -- Dynamis: addressing time -- Emptiness: activating empty space -- Flight: beyond dominant representations -- Coda -- Practice: mapping agency in design. Chronological scope -- Pioneers of operative mapping -- Mapping as a design tool -- Modes of operative mapping -- Visions -- Constructions -- Protocols -- Instruments.

Summary:

The book's fundamental aim is to offer a methodological contribution to the design disciplines, both in conceptual and instrumental terms. When added to the resources of contemporary design, operative mapping overcomes the analytical and strictly instrumental approaches of maps, opening up the possibility of working both pragmatically and critically by acknowledging the need for an effective transformation of the milieu based on an understanding of pre-existing conditions. The approach is pragmatic, not only discussing the present but, above all, generating a toolbox to help expand on the objectives, methodologies and formats of design in the immediate future. The book joins to­gether a review of the theoretical body of work on mapping from the social sciences with case studies from the past 30 years in architecture, planning, and landscape design in the interest of linking past practices with future ones. -- From publisher's website.

ISBN:

1948765071
9781948765077

Subject:

Space (Architecture)
Architectural design Data processing.
Cartography Data processing.
Landscape architecture Design.
City planning.
Espace (Architecture)
Design architectural Informatique.
Landscape architecture.
Maps.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308188
Call No.: BIB 253616
Status: Available