Week 6-7: The cartographic detour March 10, 2009
Posted by rda1 in : 6_DesignAsUrbanIntervention, 7_Place+Space , trackbackIn week 7 (Place+Space), Don Shillingburg from Peter Walker+Partners, the architects working on the 911 memorial, ran a fantastic masterclass, as a guest speaker.
His question: How do you set design parameters for public projects when inherently the outcomes will be co-created, open-ended?
He calls this exercise Best Square Wins, and yes, you had to be there.
Jonathan and Karla also took us through the info visualization classic, Snow’s cholera maps, and introduced us to Kevin Lynch’s mapping grammar. Sure, Lynch’s chapter on the elements of the city in Image of the City (1960) is about ‘reading’ city space but this toolset leads us to representations of other things – surprisingly enough, including services – we’ll return to this in week 9.
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