Friday, January 28, 2011

Sidenote: [Nostalgia mapping?]

This thought has likely been provoked by Hypercities and the exercise in which we drew our childhood maps... I think it would be very interesting to try to map my concept of the city as I have matured.  Using old photographs and memories to create an evolving map of my sense of the city beginning with my home and expanding to include my neighborhood, then my elementary school, and progressing until present day and my experience within the city.  It would be nifty to see how my "city limits" have dilated and how my perception of places and my relation to them has changed.  In this sense, I would have a sort of Hypercities map of Edmonton that actually interested me because it would pertain to me (how egotistical, for shame).  Really, though, it would combine my life and memories and emotion with a map in a crazy culmination of Hypercities and the biomapping project we looked at (http://www.biomapping.net/).  Hmmm... I may spend the weekend rummaging through old photos and scrapbooks in my basement.
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  1. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2011 at 1:30 PM

    The biomapping with hypercities would be a super interesting idea; it makes me think of a scrapbook-style map. It would also be cool to do a soundmap paired with it (minus the bad background music).

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  2. jagordonJanuary 30, 2011 at 11:38 PM

    Though I feel guilty about it too, I agree with your idea of mapping one's own place. I don't think maps really mean that much to us unless we are able to contextualize them, and as non-professional "map makers", it makes sense to want to approach our world from our point of view.

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  3. Heather ZwickerJanuary 31, 2011 at 11:06 AM

    AWESOME project. I was going to write, in response to the previous post, that you could do a hypercities map using Papaschase takes on the Edmonton region, as well as the famous (well...) 1912 map of Edmonton, drawn with a big quadrangle up in the northwest where we now just have Airport Road and Princess Elizabeth. When you see the four roads that were supposed to cross each other, the city makes a ton more sense. Anyway, back to your project: do it! Talk to me if/when you run into trouble, though. It's might prove challenging technologically.

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