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Traditionally, maps are used as a tool for way finding, strategy and planning, administration, and demonstrations of power. Maps have been constituted as places to exhibit the products of knowledge and make reliable truth claims about the world. Society and environments have become so refashioned by the need for state legibility. Because of this popular sentiment, maps do not successfully represent the actual activity of the society they depict; nor are they intended to.

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Being explored in this practice are design strategies for enhancing the dimensionality and density of portrayals of information, what we think of as data, and how to submit mapping and cartography to new itineraries for their uses. Using walking and photographing as a way to collect “datapoints”, the data is compiled, considered, and reconstructed into compositions, generative and dynamic to help us better understand the fleeting reality they resemble.

 

These maps are meant to act as a systematic way to study and represent a place with its network of local knowledge and its potentials with grace and respect. They are not somethings that merely display information. Codifying knowledge in visual forms contains a rich inventory of examples on which to contrast understandings of graphics as systematic expressions of knowledge.