After the Map: Mapping, Fabricating, and sieving

The Course clarifies the meanings of mapping and of ways of organizing visual information relevant to art, design, and photography.

The course reviews methodologies and practices of studying, describing and presenting space – from artistic and scientific traditions of depicting territory, such as perspective, cartography, and aerial photography to innovative methods such as satellite imagery and mapping data, communities and populations mapping, and the creation of imaginary and virtual maps. 

The course emphasizes the artistic aspects of mapping, assuming that every map is a painting and every painting is a map. It stresses the political and sociocultural aspects of mapping as a practice of knowledge and power, and as a way of defining the individual’s position in relation to sociocultural and political spaces. The course emphasizes the social indicators of mapping such as participatory mapping and community mapping

Art and design have an essential role to play in the study of space and in its visual presentation in the in the new visual era. The course provides theoretical and conceptual knowledge, enables and invites experimentation with new methods and potentials of mapping for creation and personal expression in the visual and technological age where the map overpowers the territory, and the image no longer represents a singular source (simulacrum).