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Proposition 3 Cartopology implements, reinvents, and stretches the role drawings and making maps (as research instruments) given by spatial and social disciplines. more info |
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Proposition 2 Considering that daily reality and its spatial context are mutually dependent, people organizing and shaping our spatial environment and people concerned with how people live and understand those environments could benefit from one another.
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Proposition 1 A trail that connects a hiking trail to a village, town, road, parking area, or separate trail system. A good startingpoint for debutants. more info |
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Overview, Looking Around and Orienting Yourself
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Making Maps, to Find Your Way
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Welcome to the sideview of our mountain of knowledge.
This view grants an insight into the research Cartopologist Marlies Vermeulen is conducting. This Side View provides a panoramic overview of the cartopological discipline. By walking up the mountainside, either by means of marked routes or by setting out your own paths, you learn more about cartopology and its scientific context. As it happens, you are walking into Marlies Vermeulen’s doctoral research.
Overwelmed
| I am getting off the train, coming from St-Gervais-les-Bains, arriving in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, after two days of sitting still I stretch my legs. I put my hands as high as I can and I look up. Whow, I have never seen a mountain so impressive! |  |
Likewise, I stand at the foot of this panoramic view of Cartopology. This wide-sided angle provides an overview of the cartopological field. It does so in two manners. Firstly, a written narrative (the booklets) takes you to Chamonix-Mont-Blanc and its mountains setting the scene for this panoramic view. And secondly, a drawn panorama (the map) with stations and routes containing cartopological matters contextualizing three propositions of cartopology and this research project.
Why would I
| In a bit you will put your first steps on this Panoramic View on Cartopology. You might wonder, why would I? I could quote George Mallory by saying ‘Because it’s there’, as answer to a question of a journalist of the New York times why he wanted to climb the Mount Everest in 1924 1 . It is an answer to indicate humans’s desire to conquer the universe. Like many now, ultra distance cyclist and scientist Michael Shermer reacts on that quote by introducing the sentence ‘Because there is no there ‘there’’. A sentence Gertrude Stein, an American poet and novelist used in 1933 talking about her childhood house that has been removed to develop new housing. 2 Michael, however, uses the sentence to indicate that for him, climbing is about the journey rather than the destination. The same counts for Reinhold Messner, one of the most famous climbers of these times. Climbing was for him | seems not (only) to be a matter of being in wild nature but also discover how human nature reacts at the highest peaks of the world. 3 Cheryl Strayed did not wondered why but started hiking the 1.100 mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995 as a way to come to ‘terms with her life’.4 Or the writer Paulo Cognetti who divides his live by living partly in the Italian alps and partly in urban areas. 5 But another reason to start walking and exploring could be the endless curiosity and scientific motivation of Alexander von Hunboldt and Aime Bonpland when they set out to climb the Chimborazo. Or, when I undertake one of my longer runs motivated in the search to be ‘there’. To have my mind at the same place as my body. And to move, slowly but surely. |
1 https://ehistory.osu.edu/articles/because-its-there visited 3rd of November 2022
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein#%22There_is_no_there_there%22 visited 3rd of November 2022
3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIDuS4FNvko visited 7th of November 2022
4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKQThCfSQ74visited 3rd of November 2022
5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yPMLL90uiE visited 7th of November 2022
Mountain a definition
You are not alone
| As an amateur arriving at the station in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc more professionals, hikers, mountain-climbers, day-trippers, locals and tourist were getting of the train too. The foot of the mountain of the Panoramic View on Cartopology is not different. Explorers coming from various fields might cross your path. Artists, theoreticians, makers, thinkers, anthropologists, spatial designers, social workers, or engineers, they all feel attracted to some extent to the Panoramic View on Cartopology. And that is precisely why the mountain as a metaphor is important. Coming from various backgrounds ‘metaphorical imagination is a crucial skill in creating rapport and in communicating the nature of unshared experience.’ ‘You slowly figure out what you have in common, what is safe to talk about,… or create a shared vision’. 8 Creating such a common image allows a certain flexibility in word view and generates the possibility for negotiation of meaning in respect of the differences in backgrounds. It is ‘understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.’ 9 The Panoramic View on Cartopology projects the spatiality of the metaphor on a mountain. ‘The metaphor is not merely in the words we use – it is in our very concept of an argument.’ 10 Walking up the Panoramic View on Cartopology is thus, entering the metaphor. | Hikers equipped with tough hiking shoes are differently prepared for their climb than trail runners who are wearing trail running shoes or mountain climbers who often have robes of all sorts with them. And even having studied the mountains on maps or by reading about them, one day or another, they all simply have to start putting one foot in front of the other. They get to know the mountainous environment by spending time on its flanks and applying what they have learned about it, in reality. They experience, they learn by doing, they walk, run, and discover. The same approach counts for cartopology and its panorama. Start your expedition and you will learn, along the way, what cartopology is about. Hang around, stray from the beaten path, slow down, and even stand still in certain areas and enjoy the view. |
8,9,10 Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (2008). Metaphors We Live By. Amsterdam University Press.
Find Your Way & Get Lost
| The routes are suggestive and give support and structure. You can deviate from it them if you feel safe enough as a mountaineer on this panoramic view of Cartopology. Because there are different ways of climbing this panorama according to the type of mountaineer or cartopologist you are: | Perhaps you have a signposted route in mind. With controlled curiosity and having an overview of departure and arrival you start walking. You want to be taken along and want to know where you are, at all times. – I suggest you focus on the signposted routes starting at the bottom of the panoramic view. | Perhaps you wander around. There is a route but the destination does not need to be fixed. Sometimes you stand still, you look around and you go offtrack with the risk of having to go back. You are an explorer who starts walking and decides the destination throughout the day. – I suggest you take a good look at the panoramic view, you fix some stations you definitely want to reach and start climbing in that direction. |
| Perhaps you select a route according to the nature of the paths and stations. You are interested in a certain technicity and speed of the trails. You want to engage as much as possible with your environment. You learn by doing and move forward based on embodied knowledge. – I suggest you look for the stations with the icon symbolizing the form of expression ‘Exercise’ and reach as many possible to them. |
On this note, I wish you a great climb and a safe expedition. Have a great exploration, bon voyage! |
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11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDB4b1w8ATc visited 8 of November 2022
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| Mapping my own position between fields and discipline as an invitation to map yours. See the Outpost: Overview, Looking Around and Orienting Yourself | ||
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| Before embarking on an adventure the first thing in my mind would be the route to get there. I would take my smartphone with the application that connects my smartphone to my watch. I use maps to be able to make other maps. | ||
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Cartopology started as an attempt of to find space in the margin between established fields has grown out to a modest discipline with its own institute and people wanting to become cartopologists. Likewise the Refuge de la Charpoua. Between the tourist context of the summit of Mont Blanc and the urbanity of the town of Chamonix, the Refuge de la Charpoua also offers an entirely unique perspective on the Alps.
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The Institute of Cartopology positions itself in the mountains. Halfway the highest peak of the Netherlands, at 246 NAP at the Vaalserberg. It embraces the idea that cartopological research and mapmaking happens somewhere. |
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| The insititue of Cartopology questions the content of cartopology, reflects on it and establishes relationships with a broader research context. but equeally important it is a much-needed place where cartopological research is done and made, interdisciplinary. | ||
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| This basecamp elaborates on the two rims using them as a metaphor to touch upon dualisms that cartopologists encounter. Firstly, I will explain how they try to bridge them by being in the inner gorge. And secondly, I will describe the urgency of being mobile in and around the canyon. | ||
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| This basecamp is a starting point for and an introduction to the guided detours throughout the cliff valley. The guided detours will take you along a collection of maps situated on each side of the valley, at the cliffs. | ||
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| How is it possible that you to translate lines on the map into a direction at a place? And how do you abstract the physical world around you into lines on a map? What does orientation mean on a map and in the physical world? Is making maps playing with degrees of reduction? By reducing one aspect on the map, more space is given to another. Can a reduction also be productive? These questions will be treated in this basecamp. | ||
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| Tim Cresswell wrote more than 200 pages to introduce the term place in all its variety and richness.1 Who uses the term, and who prefers to use space instead? Or location? Or non-place? Cresswell refers to many authors all highlighting their understanding of place. | ||
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| Scale, distance, and orientation. Of the map and on the map. Where is the map made? What is the distance of the mapmaker towards the place to map? And, what is the scale of and on the map? A large piece of paper, but a microscopic small element is drawn ten times larger. Or, the whole world on one little A4. This basecamp will elaborate on the consequences of scale, distance, and orientation. | ||
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| It takes us, as a child, multiple years to learn to read. Specific programs, lessons, and attention are needed to be able to interpret a text. Maps, however, do not get that attention. One must learn to read maps along the way. This basecamp will question what maps do with the reader. | ||
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| Station He you, Are you Reading me? | ||
| Fascinated by the three-meter-long leporello map I made, he wondered: ‘How do you make those maps? Do you really draw all this by hand? How do you get that much information in only a month?” The fact that he is stunned by the amount of information on the map and the somewhat greedy search and grasping for the insights together with the discussion of the insights on the map is exactly what a cartopological map should do. It makes you understand space, in this case, the neighborhood Saint-Sépulcre (Saint Omer) differently. “And it helps that they seem not finished. As if you invite to add other information”. | ||
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| If I were a research instrument, what would I ‘look’ like? What would be my buttons, switches, and features? | ||
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| The second edition of CORRECTIONVILLE visitors could choose. Whether they pay €8 to enter or bring a map. Any map would be good. A printed GoogleMaps screenshot. An old map used to plan holidays before internet took over that task. A very personal map, made as a child or a tourist map from the latest city trip. Almost all visitors brought a map and paid the entrance fee. At the entrance visitors did not only hand in the map, they wanted to share a story behind or of the map while getting an entrance bracelet. They wanted to elaborate on the specifics of the map they were willing to leave at the Library of Maps of the Institute of Cartopology. | ||
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| Running up and down the rims of the canyon of trying to get a better understanding of the complex contrasts cartopologists come across practicing their field. | ||
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| A fascinating picture, the photographer is unknown, of architects at work, before screens and the internet took over multiple positions to take to be able to make the necessary plans, sections, and elevation of future places. | ||
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| A nice example of the gap between policy and field and between civil servants and inhabitants. A gathering in The Hague is exemplary for the Canyon of Trying. | ||
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| Images and screenshots support my knowledge as an amateur trail runner being passionate about the sport and the world generated around it. | ||
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Station The Idealised Sun on Renders |
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| Images and screenshots support my knowledge as an amateur trail runner being passionate about the sport and the world generated around it. | ||
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When a cartopologists gets curios: Once, a policymaker told me, do not live where you work. Luckily cartopologists are there to help. |
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When a cartopologists gets curios: Conversions is a collection of photographs taken far above the ground of American urban areas. The scale of the prints is enormous and makes areas otherwise maybe forgotten, abstract and interesting forms to investigate. |
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When a cartopologists gets curios: The Fra Mauro world map is often framed as the last Mappa Mundi. It is hovering between the old world and the new. Between medieval depiction of the earth as one round ‘planisphere’ and the dual-hemisphere projection that emerged in the sixteenth century. |
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When a cartopologists gets curios: The Geographia is the work of Claudius Ptolemy, who lived between 90 and 170 AD. Ptolemy’s geographical work was almost unknown in Europe until about 1300. But once rediscovered it gave birth to the modern world. |
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When a cartopologists gets curios: How a map can have to legends, and what the impact of it is on the public opinion and the execution of a large building process. |
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When a cartopologists gets curios: This map consists of creatures and little sometimes friendly monsters. Like the Sciapod. A one-legged small and sympathetic creature. |
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When a cartopologists gets curios: The Dutch government had made a map indicating the reduction of emission of nitrogen. The same day protests were announced. The map has set the whole country (Netherlands) in commotion. Highways were blocked, everywhere national flags were hung upside down, supermarket distribution centers were barred, and little fires were set. It was clear, farmers were angry. And all because of this map. |
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When a cartopologists gets curios: Sea monsters have appeared on maps for a short period of time. However, creatures and beasts have a long history back to the Middle Ages. The map here depicts more than the sea monster, the sea, and the coastline. It also depicts Saint-Brandon’s ship. |
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When a cartopologists gets curios: As Jan Rothuizen himself describes on his website, The soft atlas of Amsterdam ‘is a collection of drawings made of the city he grew up in’. The atlas is a huge success. Everybody knows the book, but is it taken serious by policymakers? I hope so. |
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| When a cartopologists gets curios: Cartopologists have a preference for scale one to one while they are mapping. If they want to enlarge their distance from the place, they draw smaller. | ||
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