Suburbia
Social Space in the Planametric City
PART THREE: DUE OCTOBER 9, 2008, 8:30AM
Through imagery and prose, you have each identified five different forces affecting the social space of your site. You subsequently developed a base map, over which you created drawings which represented the spatial character of these forces. You will now prepare a final series of presentation quality maps which, through creative recombination, will synthesize your group's research and bring new insight into the challenges and potentials of your site.
Although drawn from measured observations in the world, mappings are neither depictions nor representations but mental constructs, ideas that enable and effect change. In describing and visualizing otherwise hidden facts, maps set the stage for future work. Mapping is always already a project in the making.
The orchid does not reproduce the tracing of the wasp; it forms a map with the wasp . . .
from A Thousand Plateau by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, 1980
With your group and your instructor, discuss the base and force maps you prepared in Part Two. Is the field of your base map appropriate? Does it include inadequate or superfluous spatial information? What other data might inform your individual force maps? How might you sort the different maps created by your group into categories, and what titles might you assign to these categories? How can the information your group has collectively collected and represented be creatively recombined?
With your group, plot your base map, scaled such that its largest dimension is no more than 35 inches and its smallest dimension is no less than 25 inches. You may need to alter or augment the quality or quantity of information provided by your initial base map as a result of discussion with your group and your instructor.
Le Corbusier's Plan Voisin for Paris, as reproduced in
Crisis of the Object: Predicament of Texture
by Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter, 1980
Collectively determine provisional titles for a series of synthetic maps that combine the information your group has collected and represented. Each member of your group is responsible for the creation one of the maps in your series. These maps are to be drawn or plotted onto sheets of mylar film that will be provided by your instructor. They should be presentation quality, and your group's efforts should be closely co-ordinated so that your maps, in combination, form a cohesive whole. Your maps will be overlain onto your base map, and onto each other, but they should also stand alone as analytical compositions of spatial information. Again, you may need to alter or augment the quality or quantity of information provided by your force maps as a result of discussion with your group and your instructor.
John Snow's map of central London, showing the location
of deaths from cholera in September 1854, as reproduced in
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by Edward Tufte, 1983
Notes:
EVALUATION
Quality of Information Collected: /3
Representation Style, Craft and Care: /3
Group Co-ordination: /3
Insights Derived: /3
With your group, plot your base map, scaled such that its largest dimension is no more than 35 inches and its smallest dimension is no less than 25 inches. You may need to alter or augment the quality or quantity of information provided by your initial base map as a result of discussion with your group and your instructor.
Le Corbusier's Plan Voisin for Paris, as reproduced in Crisis of the Object: Predicament of Texture
by Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter, 1980
Collectively determine provisional titles for a series of synthetic maps that combine the information your group has collected and represented. Each member of your group is responsible for the creation one of the maps in your series. These maps are to be drawn or plotted onto sheets of mylar film that will be provided by your instructor. They should be presentation quality, and your group's efforts should be closely co-ordinated so that your maps, in combination, form a cohesive whole. Your maps will be overlain onto your base map, and onto each other, but they should also stand alone as analytical compositions of spatial information. Again, you may need to alter or augment the quality or quantity of information provided by your force maps as a result of discussion with your group and your instructor.
John Snow's map of central London, showing the location of deaths from cholera in September 1854, as reproduced in
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by Edward Tufte, 1983
Notes:
- To summarize, the task at hand is to sort your group's force maps into categories, title each category, and draw or plot new maps that creatively combine the information in each category that can each be accurately overlain onto a plot of your base map.
- Plot your base map as soon as possible so that it can be employed by all the members of your group. Your group may choose to plot one copy of the base map for each member, but this is not required.
- If you are plotting onto mylar, you must bring your file to Mark at the main Service Bureau desk (located on the 2nd floor of 100 McCaul) by 12PM on Tuesday, October 7 in order to ensure that he has sufficient time to handle your file. Please review the instructions provided on the Service Bureau website, especially with regards to file preparation. Take care in handling your plot, as the ink doesn't dry immediately.
- If you are drawing onto mylar, take care to keep your sheet clean, as per John Reed's demonstration in class. You only have one sheet, so work judiciously.
- Your group's base map should include a scale; each individual synthetic map should include a legend and a title. In general, minimize all other text as much as possible.
EVALUATION
Quality of Information Collected: /3
Representation Style, Craft and Care: /3
Group Co-ordination: /3
Insights Derived: /3
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