Project
Development • Making a Framework
1 Interpretive Mapping as a way of
understanding the city and the issues involved in the project
Maps are vehicles, mechanisms that facilitate your
making of a design. However, they are not personal indulgences. They should
not require obtuse theory, verbose explanation, or in-the-know positions
to decode. These would not constitute 'expressions' not maps.
1 They should be maps that can be enhanced throughout the course of the
project. That is, they are conceptual and physical constructions that help
you build your project and convey those understandings to others. You must
be able to 'enhance' them over time through various means—additive,
subtractive, or mutable, or whatever means you devise.
2 They must accurately orient users spatially. That is, things, processes,
events, and conditions should directly correspond to their actual geographic
location.
3 They should convey a critical point of view. They are not repositories
of various pieces of knowledge. They should make relationships between various
pieces of knowledge. In the end they should be synthetic, taking information
and making it into something new and unique that changes the way people
view the landscape. |
|
