An over-labelled diagram drawn from readings and process development of mapping exercises. I feel that ‘relationships’ is a constant throughout, that what happens between ‘things’ (used loosely to describe anything from people, a building, an object, a living thing, something) is being explored.
Inspired by texts including Walter Benjamin’s “Unpacking my Library”, Jane Bennet’s “Vibrant Matter” and David Grahame Shane’s “Recombinant Urbanism”. Working through the mapping process has generated ideas of what is drawn from mapping; if looking at how mapping can both reveal and generate from the relationships between things/elements/persons etc. then we might explore how therefore we can derive from or inform mapping through emotions, characteristics or disposition made visible when comparing two ‘things’.
Maybe mapping = relationships=emotions=characteristics=disposition? Similarly, mapping=relationships=poetry. How we represent ‘mapping’ could stretch from the site map and maybe take the form of a poem? Poetry verbally links words, ideas, and feelings. It can emphasise literally the phonetic relationship between words but while doing so, emphasises the point or observation of the poet.
Reference
Benjamin, W. (1931). Unpacking my library: a talk about book collecting. In Arendt, H. (Ed.) Illuminations. (pp. 59-67). Great Britain: Pimlico.
Bennet, J. (2010). Vibrant Matter: a political ecology of things. USA: Duke University Press.
Shane, D.G. (2005). Recombinant Urbanism: conceptual modelling in architecture, urban design and city. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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