MAPPING

A collection of systems, structures and schemes that can be used as a rudimentary basis to begin to explore links between literary and visual pursuits and the schemata that are latent in our personal geographies, the cosmos and all else inbetween. A basis to begin a consideration of how creative production seeks to grasp what it means to be in the world.

[dwellingmaps]

Victionary's CITIx60 city guides. "For each of the six guides, the Hong Kong-based publisher sought tips from sixty of the city’s top creatives to put together an unorthodox list of off-the-beaten-track restaurants, shops, sights and experiences, all with a design-led bent. What’s more, all of the content is wrapped in a city map designed by a different locally-based illustrator."

[dwellingmaps]

Mark Lander: New drawings exploring erosion of coastlines, embossing and hand cut embossing template.

[invisiblestories]

Henning Rogge, WWII bomb craters (via hyperallergic)

[dwellingmaps]

From experience of drawing, using negative space develops ability to render form. Derrida in The Truth in Painting points us to the gaps. Friction renders new.

[urbnist]

Piece of history. Street art of the Berlin Wall. Act up! (at Newseum)

[actegratuit]

Flesh fields

Edie Nadelhaft's paintings

[blue-voids]

[wasbella102]

Rachel Garrard - Stardust Etching - Cosmos (2010)

blue-voids:

[tra-velne-ws-blog]

The old town of Ghadames

[babylonfalling]

Paris, May 1968

[ninetythieves-blog]

“Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.”

Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, Vol. 2. (via ninetythieves)

[elinka]

Waiting for a miracle

by Konstantin Mironov

[maxsipowicz-deactivated20150907]

Her notes on reading his ‘One-Way Street’. Interesting, for sure.

[humanscalecities]

A History of Future Cities

[humanscalecities]

The Street. A Quintessential Social Public Space

By Vikas Mehta

[goodtypography]

[grafikr]

Dan Hoopert

[batarde]

A novel is not a place one passes through; it is a place one inhabits.

Paulin Limayrac, “Du Roman acuel et de nos romanciers,” Revue des deux mondes from The Arcades Project. (via batarde)

[dwellingmaps]

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Treasure hunt. A game of hide and speak. Leave clues in the city; trace values; see what is understood, misunderstood, translated and made new. Learn from the responses. I think I might be asking you to physically follow my thoughts. What collisions will occur. Hand over being the trail maker.

[dwellingmaps]

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we’re looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Charles de Lint

with thanks to Crashingly Beautiful http://crashinglybeautiful.tumblr.com/