SpaceFlaneur

NoWhere by Djuno Tomsni on Flickr.

Fri, 17 May 2013 05:47:18 -0400

NoWhere by Djuno Tomsni on Flickr.

180° mirrored-glass (cc) by marfis75 on Flickr.

Fri, 17 May 2013 05:43:25 -0400

180° mirrored-glass (cc) by marfis75 on Flickr.

ju-le-calme: Frankfurt this afternoon.

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:12:41 -0400

ju-le-calme:

Frankfurt this afternoon.

"….und deshalb muss es auch die Geographie geben - wir handeln und tun ja alles Mögliche nicht in der..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:15:00 -0400

““….und deshalb muss es auch die Geographie geben - wir handeln und tun ja alles Mögliche nicht in der raumleeren Luft!””

ach so by DREASAN on Flickr.

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:45:03 -0400

ach so by DREASAN on Flickr.

raumstadtion: Spacewalk Millenium Bridge, London, UK Foto:...

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:35:43 -0400

raumstadtion:

Spacewalk

Millenium Bridge, London, UK

Foto: fedro

"‘Spur’ trifft wahrscheinlich besser, was sich dem Sozialgeographen in Landschaft und..."

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:18:14 -0400

““‘Spur’ trifft wahrscheinlich besser, was sich dem Sozialgeographen in Landschaft und Raum tatsächlich für eine soziale Interpretation anbietet; oft minimale, sehr mittelbare, abgeleitete und entfernte Effekte vergangener Ereignisse; vieldeutige, lückige, deformierte, oft schon halbverwischte, wegerodierte oder auch (sei es zufällig, sei es absichtsvoll) wieder aufgedeckte Überreste; eine Ansammlung von meist unbeabsichtigten, ja unvorhergesehenen und sogar unbemerkt, zufällig und nebenher produzierten Handlungsfolgen, die dann fortlaufend in neuen Handlungen (mit oder ohne Absicht) um- und weggearbeitet, um- und weggedeutet, genutzt, abgenutzt und umgenutzt werden. Kurz: Landschaft und Raum sind vor allem Fundgruben von ‘Spuren’ in eben diesem Sinn, aber keine Ansammlungen von regelhaft auftretenden Indikatoren und auch nur zu einem kleinen Teil Ansammlungen von intendierten Artefakten.””

- Hard, Gerhard (1989): Geographie als Spurenlesen. Eine Möglichkeit, den Sinn und die Grenzen der Geographie zu formulieren. In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie 33 (1/2), 2-11, (S. 5.)

Dortmund by guu5555555 on Flickr.

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:16:23 -0400

Dortmund by guu5555555 on Flickr.

Allonsy by Djuno Tomsni on Flickr.

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:06:52 -0400

Allonsy by Djuno Tomsni on Flickr.

"Embracing Benjamin’s evocative phrase ‘botanizing on the asphalt’ as a guide for encountering and..."

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:54:00 -0500

““Embracing Benjamin’s evocative phrase ‘botanizing on the asphalt’ as a guide for encountering and witnessing the seething materiality and vitality of the city, I develop a sense of the urban spaces as multilayered, labyrinthine, and shaped by many competing stories.””

- Dan Swanton (2012): Afterimages of Steel: Dortmund. In: Space and Culture 15 (4), 264-282 (p. 265)

Emotional Cartography - Technologies of the Self Edited by...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:56:18 -0500

Emotional Cartography - Technologies of the Self

Edited by Christian Nold, 2009

Emotional Cartography is a collection of essays from artists, designers, psychogeographers, cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists, brought together by Christian Nold, to explore the political, social and cultural implications of visualising intimate biometric data and emotional experiences using technology.

Essays by Raqs Media Collective, Marcel van de Drift, Dr Stephen Boyd Davis, Rob van Kranenburg, Sophie Hope and Dr Tom Stafford

A5 Offset Litho - 96 pages - Full Colour
ISBN 978-0-9557623-1-4

Download the full and complete book:

http://emotionalcartography.net/

———

Christian Nold (http://www.softhook.com/index.htm)

"Overall, the critical turn in cartography has dramatically modified the relations between maps and..."

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:48:25 -0500

““Overall, the critical turn in cartography has dramatically modified the relations between maps and narratives in two ways: by deconstructing and exposing the metanarratives embedded in maps, and by envisioning maps as a compelling form of storytelling.
The potential of maps to tell stories has been further explored by different authors. For instance, Robert MacFarlane (2007) introduces the concept of ‘story maps’ to describe forms of spatial expressions that embody our personal experiences of the environment and contribute to creating a deep understanding of places. The idea that a story map is defined by its experential dimension echoes other researchers’ acknowledgement of the importance of developing emotionally charged maps and geovisualizations in order to better understand places and to mobilize for action […].
MacFarlane opposes these story maps to grid maps, best illustrated by road maps, which, as he describes, ‘make the landscape dream-proof, impervious to the imagination’ (p. 142). The grid map is seen as a way of suppressing alternative geographical imaginations, just like any other authoritative and functionalistic map […]. Mac Farlane (2007 concludes by arguing that grid maps ‘encourage the elimination of wonder from our relationship with the world. And once wonder has been chased from our thinking about the land, then we are lost’ (p. 145). This paradox of becoming lost by getting too well located resonates with previous practices such as the Situationists’ drift, which describes a random urban journey in order to challenge the functionalist use of the city and to facilitate the crossing of psychogeographic barriers […]””

- Sébastien Caquard (2013): Cartography I: Mapping narrative cartography. In: Progress in Human Geography 37 (1), 135-144 (pp. 136 f.)

MacFarlane, R. (2007): The Wild Places. London: Granta Books & Penguin Books.

Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place, and the Spaces of Sound

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:28:02 -0500

Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place, and the Spaces of Sound:

sonicstudies:

Call for Papers

Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place, and the Spaces of Sound

Stellenbosch University (South Africa) 9-11 September 2013

Landscapes are divided and dissonant sites of private and collective being. They bear traces of present, past and future ambitions, injustices, and interventions. And yet, their grammars and sounds, whether intimate, commodified or instrumentalised, push at the limits of theory and representation and simultaneously construct systems of aesthetic, ideological, historical and political appropriation.

The second meeting of the ‘Hearing Landscape Critically’ network (Stellenbosch University, 9-11 September 2013) is concerned with finding ways to articulate and listen to landscape that challenge established patterns of cognition and intervention, and which probe the archival and everyday silences and ruptures exacerbated by social, political and intellectual intervention.

Whilst this symposium aims to bring together a wide-ranging set of subjects and disciplinary approaches, contributions concerned with the unique dynamics of music and sound in (South) African landscapes are especially welcome.

sky dive by bethfromabove on Flickr.

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:47:40 -0500

sky dive by bethfromabove on Flickr.

Photo

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:51:45 -0500

acid-chaos: TRIPPY☯ ☯ ☯

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:40:06 -0500

acid-chaos:

TRIPPY☯ ☯ ☯

Photo

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:30:24 -0500

Wander Blog

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:23:00 -0500

Wander Blog:

“The Wander Postcard Project: A Traveler’s Canon

We asked some of our favorite illustrators to imagine a postcard from everywhere and nowhere at once. We’re blown away by the results, which we’ll be sharing every day on this blog. We hope you will be too.

Collect, pin, share, and reblog your favorites. They’re also available to download as high-res iPad or iPhone wallpaper. Don’t be shy, take one for the road.”

ffffffound: Wander Blog

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:18:39 -0500

ffffffound:

Wander Blog

Photo

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:09:29 -0500