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The genesis of a territory is deeply tied to the hidden signs that connect its geography to its history. As with language, maps are still conceived as machines, deterministically structured according to rules that do not admit exceptions. Metropolitan Cartography attempts to break down the mechanical act. Maps grew out of the inescapable need for architects and urban designers to construct a tool to help interpret the spatial complexity of the metropolis, the rules by which its components are related to each other, which often seem mysterious. Through the maps of Metropolitan Cartography, the user and cartographer are part of the data, giving meaning to the signs on a map because they are willing to listen to them and interpret their animated, memorable, and sensory images.
The specialization of information about metropolitan territories in transition provides a synthesis of vivid, multidisciplinary knowledge about physical space. The research question that arises is: How does the interpretation of reality change with new technologies? A qualitative mapping project for metropolises is proposed through the powerful, evocative image in the maps of Metropolitan Cartography. These serve as a spatial tool that can critically analyze the physical and temporal complexity of the territory, representing it in a new, dynamic way through the knowledge and translation of stratified information ecology, producing “sensitive” images that activate the understanding of their value in the intertwining of different scales.
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Contin, A., Galiulo, V. (2023). Unveiling Beauty Through Maps Affective Image Determination for Spatial Learning Through Metropolitan Cartography Maps.. In: Villa, D., Zuccoli, F. (eds) Proceedings of the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination. IMG 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 631. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25906-7_20
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