Trust Me, I’m a Cartographer: Post-truth and the Problem of Acritical Cartography

Kent, A. J.

doi:10.1080/00087041.2017.1376489

Cited by 33 publications

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“…Being in use since the 1990s, mapping means made it more feasible for anyone than ever to be a cartographer for his own purpose (Muehlenhaus, 2014). Simultaneously, maps are ideal for dissemination and consumption of spatial aspects of information because their graphical format of complex spatial patterns provides an immediate visual summary that can inform (or misinform) (Kent, 2017). Also, a map-maker receives from a map user immediate feedback concerning information disseminated via a map, even if it is not the same person.…”

Section: Interactive Cartography For Spatial Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eliciting Information for Developing a Circular Economy in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

Arciniegas

Wandl

Mazur

et al. 2022

Regenerative Territories

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Advancing circularity in metropolitan areas involves planning, co-designing and implementing spatially explicit interventions with a multitude of stakeholders who are required to work with waste and resource management information. For the stakeholders, understanding information on these flows of resources and materials, and the spatial implications of these flows across the territory, is crucial when proposing new interventions and assessing the effects of these interventions. Spatial decision support systems constitute potential tools for supporting groups of stakeholders involved in the collaborative process of shaping the future of urban areas while achieving sustainability and increased circularity. This chapter focuses on the digital representation and portrayal, and the use of different types of information in a digital spatial decision support tool aimed at helping decision-makers through stages of the collaborative process that starts at problem identification and status quo understanding, and finishes at the proposed circular economy strategies for a metropolitan area. The way in which information is modeled and presented in the tool is largely based on the geodesign methodology, and is specific to individual stages of the planning process. The tool presents information relevant to a peri-urban area through different mediums: web maps and charts to describe the study area, Sankey diagrams linked with dynamic flow maps to portray its resource flow streams, and the integration of the above to portray and assess the scenarios developed jointly by the stakeholders. The tool was implemented in an interactive web application and applied to the collaborative process of developing spatial strategies for advancing circularity in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. A series of interconnected workshops were held with stakeholders, who used the tool to guide them through the stages of the co-development of the strategies. Stakeholders were presented with spatial information about the study area’s current resource and waste management situation in the form of web maps and the spatial distribution and dynamics of resource flows. This chapter describes how all this information was portrayed, presented, and used within the interactive web application at the collaborative workshops.

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Section: Interactive Cartography For Spatial Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eliciting Information for Developing a Circular Economy in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

Arciniegas

Wandl

Mazur

et al. 2022

Regenerative Territories

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“…But this persuasion goes beyond just the framing of meaning, as persuasive visual stories also mobilize the audience to act in a specific way (Caquard, 2013). Accordingly, it is necessary to question if such persuasive visual storytelling without an accompanying visual ethics is doing more harm than good to our collective geographic understanding and global citizenship (Kent, 2017). 9.…”

Section: Some Common Visual Storytelling Themesmentioning

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Cartographic Design as Visual Storytelling: Synthesis and Review of Map-Based Narratives, Genres, and Tropes

Roth

2020

The Cartographic Journal

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In this article, I review considerations and techniques for approaching cartographic design as visual storytelling. Stories, like maps, are a method for documenting and explaining, for meaningfully abstracting our experiences, for communicating and sharing, and for asserting a particular worldview. I argue that visual storytelling offers an entry point for hybridization in cartography, uniting technology with praxis, product with process, and design with critique while opening rich new avenues for transdisciplinary research and design. I begin by introducing influences on map-based visual storytelling and review ten recurring themes that make visual storytelling different from traditional perspectives on cartographic design. I then offer three of potentially many ways to articulate and organize the design space for mapbased visual storytelling: foundational narrative elements and their adaptation to geographic phenomena and processes, visual storytelling genres delineating different story experiences, and visual storytelling tropes used to advance narratives across text, maps, images, and other multimedia. I conclude with a call for future research on visual storytelling in cartography, including visual design, visual ethics, and visual literacy.

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“…Cartographers regularly express concern about the potential of maps to mislead (e.g. Kent, 2017;Robinson, 2019). This is often accompanied by a sense of dread at the ease by which maps can be created and disseminated today, since map consumers have become map prosumers that produce and publish content.…”

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Mapping and Counter-Mapping COVID-19: From Crisis to Cartocracy

Kent¹

2020

The Cartographic Journal

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Trust Me, I’m a Cartographer: Post-truth and the Problem of Acritical Cartography

Cited by 33 publications

References 9 publications

Eliciting Information for Developing a Circular Economy in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

Eliciting Information for Developing a Circular Economy in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

Cartographic Design as Visual Storytelling: Synthesis and Review of Map-Based Narratives, Genres, and Tropes

Mapping and Counter-Mapping COVID-19: From Crisis to Cartocracy

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