mapping

Mapping. Looking at what we map. How we map. Mapping is completely open. There is no limit to what can be mapped. There is also no direction in which a map has to be read.

The image below is a link to a podcast and article that was on Chicago Public Radio; it explores the topic of mapping the world in regard to smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world mapped by the five senses. I thought it was interesting as we begin to explore how to map our concepts of the university. The image is a map by Denis Wood who used a "brush loaded with ink at the location of every street light in the neighborhood to suggest the pools of light people swim through when walking the streets of Boylan Heights at night".


Here is a short funny video that I found about mapping and google earth.

In regards to the concept that I will be exploring for assignment 3: Site as Text, I will be looking at conditions that occur along the main campus and the intersection of Mexico City. I will be mapping the relationship that exists between the chaotic nature of Mexico City and the order of UNAM’s main campus