TY - JOUR
T1 - Tracing postrepresentational visions of the city
T2 - representing the unrepresentable Skateworlds of Tyneside
AU - Swords, Jon
AU - Jeffries, Michael
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - In any visualisation of the city more is left unseen than made visible. Contemporary visualisations of the city are increasingly influenced by quantification, and thus anything which cannot be quantified is hidden. In contrast, we explore the use of ‘lo-fi’, doodled, participatory maps made by skateboarders in Tyneside, England, as a means to represent their cityscape. Drawing on established work an skateboarding and recent developments in cartography, we argue that skateboarders understand the city from a postrepresentational perspective. Such a framing presents a series of challenges to map their worlds which we explore through a processual account of our mapmaking practice. In this process we chart how skateboarders’ mappings became part of a more significant interplay of performance, identity, visualisation, and exhibition. The paper makes contributions to the emerging field of postrepresentational cartography and argues that its processual focus provides useful tools to understand how visions of the city are produced.
AB - In any visualisation of the city more is left unseen than made visible. Contemporary visualisations of the city are increasingly influenced by quantification, and thus anything which cannot be quantified is hidden. In contrast, we explore the use of ‘lo-fi’, doodled, participatory maps made by skateboarders in Tyneside, England, as a means to represent their cityscape. Drawing on established work an skateboarding and recent developments in cartography, we argue that skateboarders understand the city from a postrepresentational perspective. Such a framing presents a series of challenges to map their worlds which we explore through a processual account of our mapmaking practice. In this process we chart how skateboarders’ mappings became part of a more significant interplay of performance, identity, visualisation, and exhibition. The paper makes contributions to the emerging field of postrepresentational cartography and argues that its processual focus provides useful tools to understand how visions of the city are produced.
KW - participatory mapping
KW - postrepresentational cartography
KW - skateboarding
KW - Visualization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84940946719&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0308518X15594906
DO - 10.1177/0308518X15594906
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84940946719
SN - 0308-518X
VL - 47
SP - 1313
EP - 1331
JO - Environment and Planning A
JF - Environment and Planning A
IS - 6
ER -