Mapping Beyond Measure

Ferdinand, Simon

doi:10.2307/j.ctvrnfr46

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“…They show fictional, imagined landscapes (Cooper and Gregory 2010;Daniels 2011), but they have all the qualities of real maps: location, locale, and a sense of place (Bushell 2016). Old maps were originally associated with art rather than science (Rees 1980;Ferdinand 2019), and they then became technicized and reapproximated to art through imaginary maps as »map art« (Wood 2006).…”

Section: Old Maps As the Root Of Fantasy Mapsmentioning

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Cartographic time travel: Reflecting the past, defining the present, and challenging the future using old maps

Komac,

Gašperič

2023

AGS

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This introductory article of the special issue of Acta geographica Slovenica on old maps examines the importance of old maps as the foundation and culmination of geographical research. Maps, one of the earliest languages of communication, have guided exploration and become reference documents. Old maps reveal history, values, and contexts of geographical regions and geographical science. They serve as a special form of text, making possible communication across centuries. Old maps have inspired fantasy maps that depict fictional landscapes and create a cultural phenomenon. This special issue contains articles that analyze the cartographic elements of old maps, the semiotics of old maps, their use in education, and their historical significance, as well as an article on the first Slovenian atlas. Old maps challenge geographic knowledge and representation, and they are shaping the digital future.

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Section: Old Maps As the Root Of Fantasy Mapsmentioning

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Cartographic time travel: Reflecting the past, defining the present, and challenging the future using old maps

Komac,

Gašperič

2023

AGS

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“…115-120). For example, one can imagine a picture (drawings, paintings) and this is also shown in early colonial photographs, of the co-existence of the Indigenous people within the 'places' established in the early times of colonization [30]. They coexisted within the places in a way that de Certeau calls tactic, whereby, the Indigenous people navigated the then newly imposed spatial order of the place and the strategic order of laws, boundaries and structures (Figure 4).…”

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Lines of Settlement: Lost Landscapes within Maps for Future Morphologies

Sanders¹,

Lozanovska²,

Galen³

2021

Heritage

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The value of archival documents quite often extends beyond their original purpose, as evidence contained within these artefacts, whether written or drawn, can provide veracity for new lines of heritage inquiry. Many settlements in the ‘new world’ were set out by land surveyors whose drawings charted the accurate placement and alignment of new streets and block perimeters laid upon drawings of the extant topographical landscape features. The paper discusses three settlement maps of Melbourne, Australia, through the lens of Michel de Certeau’s idea that maps are an instrument of power are not just about recording; maps are actually about appropriating and producing regimes of place. In the Australian context, the settlement drawings, prepared under the direction of the colonial administration, inadvertently depicts Country that had been under the custodial care of the First Nations peoples for millennia, and through the intentions of the settlement maps about to be irrevocably disturbed, altered or destroyed. We raise the prospect that urban and landscape design can reflect on the ‘lost landscapes’ of cultural significance, and discuss new ways of interpreting representation through an approach of design reconciliation.

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