I can see more than half of the students have already joined this blog. I will encourage your thoughts on both articles (from James Corner and Alex Wall)and also use this as a forum to chronicle your creative process, should you feel like sharing with the rest of the studio.
Also, please make you post your original posts as posts, not comments. Comments are usually buried under an original post and are not highly visible.
Also, please feel use labels/tags on your posts so we can organize the posts better. For example, if your post is regarding James Corner's "Agency Of Mapping" article, please tag the author and article name so we can sort the posts easier as they accumulate.
After chewing over James Corner's "Agency Of Mapping" I think the concept that resonated the most with me was that mapping can empower a designer to derive from a "logical force" rather than one derived purely from possibility (projection) or necessity (utility). The devices/techniques discussed are just examples of ways one can experiment hopefully working towards an otherwise hidden inventive possibility, "lying outside of the normative." For some reason this made me think of Maya Lin [www.mayalin.com] and her work were she makes seemingly simple art pieces out of complex data sets. Check out the one at the CA Academy of Sciences...
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