The ‘Analogue City’

Mapping and Acting in Antwerp’s Digital Geographies

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ID22018591
AuthorsChiara Cavalieri (0000-0002-7023-6516), Michael Stas (Oslo School of Architecture and Design), Marcelo Rovira Torres
Year2020
Volume5
Issue4
Pages289-300
Publication date2020-12-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Planning (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635
PublisherCogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT)
DOI10.17645/up.v5i4.3426
OpenAlexW3112318154
LanguageEN
References cited21

This article discusses digital geographies by tracing, mapping, and revealing a series of spaces bounded by a multiplex digital infrastructure. By proposing ‘descriptivism’ as a complementary approach to digital mapping, this work discloses the city of Antwerp as the intertwining of visible and invisible networks. The ‘Analogue City’ is the title of both a design workshop and of a collective act of mapping that progressively reveals the city of Antwerp as a set of different spaces of information flows. By engaging the notion of mapping as object and practice, this work describes the production of a multi-scale and multi-space representation, as a process of collective and performative cartography. Through the combination of different scales, spaces, and mapping techniques, the city of Antwerp is unfolded as the result of security, mobility, and social networks. As a mapping operation, the ‘Analogue City’ is a threefold object: (a) an interactive, intentionally large map; (b) a series of mapping interventions throughout the city; and ultimately (c) a temporary exhibition

Aesthetics · Art · Cartography · Exhibition · Geography · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Right to the city · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis · Artificial Intelligence

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