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Method 3

Mapping

Mapping is a way of framing and codifying a particular view of a place. What we map and how we do it are therefore fundamental questions, because the decisions we make will shape the story told by the map. In critical urban practice, mapping can become a powerful tool to bring into view a range of perspectives and understandings drawn from lived experience, shifting power to urban dwellers to tell their own story the way they want it to be told.

References

Concepts

Article: Mapping migrant territories as topological deformations of space

Website: Making maps

Website: Network Maps, Energy Diagrams

Website: Counter cartographies

Article: The Power Mapping Tool: A Method for the Empirical Research of Power Relations

Stories

Website: An Atlas of Radical Cartography

Website: Mapping community dynamics

Website: Architecture Ethnographie

Reading: Comic Book Cartographies: A Cartocentred Reading Of ‘City Of Glass’, The Graphic Novel

Website: Urban ethnography lab

Article: I migranti mappano l’Europa

Outputs

Life histories

Voices from San Siro: Marina

Life histories

Voices from San Siro: Anton

Visual representation

Stories of (ex)change

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