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Showing 1 to 20 of 211 for “"cartography"”.
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Recall cartography
A memory is inherently subjective and personal; contained within but not confined to the mind. The recollection of any memory unveils individual and collective identity attributed to a familiar space. Subsequently, retrieving an identity from a space converts that space into 'place'; a consequence …
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An aesthetic cartography of fast
In this cartography, I examine M.K. Gandhi’s practice of fasting for political purposes from a specifically aesthetic perspective. In other words, to foreground their dramatic qualities, how they in their expressive repetition, patterning and stylization produced a/effected heightened forms of …
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Peripato Telematikos: walking, cartography and software art
Peripato Telematikos began with walking as a means to explore and investigate the places and spaces we inhabit and our relationships with them. The research asked how can peripatetic art practices inform the methodologies used by individuals to (re)present their environs and what media art …
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Cancer Cartography: Mapping Cancer Evolution in Tissue Space
While somatic evolution is widely accepted as fundamental to cancer development, significant gaps in understanding persist. These gaps concern the role of cellular interactions within the tumour microenvironment (TME) and the impact of spatial constraints on cancer evolution. Emerging spatial omics …
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Crystal Cartography: Mapping Nanostructure with Scanning Electron Diffraction
Nanostructure describes the network of defective and distorted atomic structure existing on the nanoscale within materials. This nanostructure bridges the gap between idealised crys- talline structure and real materials, playing a deterministic role in tailoring physico-chemical properties, as well …
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Grassroots mapping : tools for participatory and activist cartography
… the empowering role broader participation in cartography can play in advocacy, and the potential for increased cartographic literacy to level the playing field in territorial self-determination for small communities. Compared to other efforts to democratize mapmaking, which focus primarily on …
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Space, place, and database : layers of digital cartography
This paper addresses the changes in cartography since digitization and widespread popular dissemination. Cybercartography, an emergent system of maps, mapmaking tools, and mapmakers, forces a rethinking of spatial representations. The implicit distinction in digital media enables a new type of map …
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Metropolitan landscapes knowledge: metropolitan cartography to design urban-rural morphotypes
… Landscapes Knolwledge. Metropolitan Cartography to design Urban-Rural Morphotypes”. In particular, the general goals of the research are: Reclaiming - Envisioning - Designing Metropolitan Landscapes through Metropolitan Cartography (MC), to build a new methodological approach and …
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An IoT enabled system for marine data acquisition and cartography
… Internet of Marine Things data acquisition and cartography system in the marine environment using Very High Frequency (VHF) available on the majority of ships. The proposed system is equipped with sensors such as sea depth, tempera- ture, wind speed and direction, and the collected data is sent …
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"Queen of All Islands": The Imagined Cartography of Matthew Paris's Britain
<p>In the middle decade of the thirteenth century, the Benedictine monk and historian Matthew Paris drew four regional maps of Britain. The monk's works stand as the earliest extant maps of the island and mark a distinct shift from the cartographic traditions of medieval Europe. Historians have …
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When Worlds Collide--Art, Cartography, and Japanese Nanban World Map Screens
A number of Momoyama (1573-1615) and Edo (1615-1868) period folding screens feature Western maps of the world as their subject. These map screens are among the earliest examples of Japanese visual culture to feature pictorial imagery shaped by European cartographic science, geographic knowledge, …
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Drawing ‘New Maps’ Critical Cartography and Ethnographical Enquiry Through Drawing Practice
… brings together ethnography and critical cartography through drawing practice to produce new maps that relate the formation of cultural and social identity. It challenges the conventional map in socio-political spheres, generating opportunities for hidden narratives and communities to be …
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Seeing differently : cartography for subjective maps based on dynamic urban data
… and ideals towards objectivity and accuracy. Cartography has become a precise science that excludes much inspiring narrative, which was commonly seen in ancient maps. On the other hand, during the past two decades, the nature of cities has been undergoing an enormous shift powered by …
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Chickasaw Cartography: Comparing Historical and Modern Maps of the Sovereign Chickasaw Nation
This paper collects sources of maps, treaties, and other relevant writing to explore the location of the Chickasaw Nation since the eighteenth century. In addition, I will use my learning of cartographic aspects and techniques to compare historic spatial depictions of the Indigenous community to …
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Graffiti as counter-cartography: street art and the cartographic legacy in Bogotá, Colombia
… a different theoretical framework: that of cartography. Cartography, the process of stratifying objects and social types according to a hierarchy within the borders of declared national space, reinforces specific relationships between constituent social groups and those in power. More …
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Re-mapping the Arctic: contemporary approaches to practising cartography across diverse knowledge traditions
… the theoretical and practical history of cartography, both as a discipline, and as applied to the Arctic. In doing so, I make the argument for an inextricable link between cartography and knowledge production across supposedly different ‘knowledge traditions’, through the privileging of …
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