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Shifts in Mapping

Maps as a Tool of Knowledge

Christine Schranz

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English
Transcript Verlag
25 November 2022
Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving force in this field and change our view of the world; how we communicate, navigate, and consume globally. Questions of privacy, authorship, and economic interests are highly relevant to cartography's practices. So how to deal with such powers and what is the critical role of cartography in it? How might a bottom-up perspective (and actions) in map-making change the conception of a geopolitical space?

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Imprint:   Transcript Verlag
Country of Publication:   Germany
Dimensions:   Height: 24mm,  Width: 16mm,  Spine: 2mm
Weight:   652g
ISBN:   9783837660418
ISBN 10:   3837660419
Series:   Social and Cultural Geography
Pages:   294
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Preface; Research Interest; On the Symposium and Exhibition; Acknowledgments; Shifts in Mapping; Introduction to the essay section; Shifts in Mapping: Two Concepts which have Changed the World View; Atlas of Indexical Cities: A Personal Search Engine for the World; Reflections on the Cartographic Languages When collectively mapping possible worlds; Critical Map Visualizations; The Digital Memory of Palmyra: (How) can data images be critical?; Design through Graduation; Radical Cartography; Biographies; Introduction to the Exhibition: STRATEGIES OF NEOGEOGRAPHY IN RECENT MEDIA ART; Works/Artists in the Exhibition.

Christine Schranz (Dr.) studied scenography (MA) and visual communication (diploma degree), both at Zurich University of the Arts. She is a designer and holds a PhD in theater, film and media studies from Universit�t Wien (Austria), in cooperation with Z�rcher Hochschule der K�nste (Switzerland). She is head of programme research at the Institute of Contemporary Design Practices at Academy of Art and Design FHNW in Basel. Currently she is conducting a research project in �Commons in Design�, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Other research activities include fellowships at the Archaeologies of Media and Technology (AMT) research group at the Winchester School of Art - University of Southampton and the Chair of Art Theory & Curating at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen as well as a doctoral fellowship at the Chair of Visual Arts at TU Berlin.

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