“Redefining The Basemap” presented by Sant
Symposium:
Session Title:
- Interactive City
Presentation Title:
- Redefining The Basemap
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Abstract:
Current collaborative mapping projects, using locative media technologies, have often overlooked the conventions of the basemap as a site for reinvention. Although these projects imagine alternative organizations of urban space through the way it is digitally mapped, they remain bounded by datasets that reinforce a Cartesian and static notion of urban space. This paper questions the methodology of the basemap, as it is utilized in these projects, and proposes alternative tactics for mapping the city.
