1. Two double lectures on The Map: ----------------------------------Week 4----------------------------------- 1.Maps and making knowledge 2.Maps and philosophies of knowledge ----------------------------------Week 5----------------------------------- 3. Maps, domination and resistance 4.Democratisation and Subversion of Maps

2. 4. Democratisation & Subversion of Maps

3. In the next 40 minutes or so… Artistic subversions Alternative world views through projections Mapping effects of power Democratising mapping – parish maps, participatory GIS and citizen cartography

4. Artistic subversions Authority and representational power of the map has attracted artistic engagement and subversion

5. Guy Debord, 1957

6. Surrealist map of the world, from Variétés, 1929

11. Mapping power Through technological advancements enabling access to and manipulation of spatial data, maps are used to more diverse ends, including mapping manifestations of power

12. www.worldmapper.org Land Area

13. www.worldmapper.org Fuel use

14. www.worldmapper.org $1 a day

15. www.worldmapper.org Wealth

16. Parish maps Local people mapping local significance, stories Ownership of process, locally distinctive modes of abstraction and representation Resists evacuation of meaning and particularity in conventional mapping, rather using mapping as means of cohesion and expression

19. Citizen cartography Citizen cartography – particularly using GPS and web 2.0 applications to create copyright free mapping data Contesting ownership – this time of mapping data itself E.g. openstreetmap.org

20. Democratisation and subversion of maps Political implications of conventional world views have been destabilised by alternative projections More radically, by artistic subversions Recent technological developments enabling the availability and manipulation of mapping data changing the location of cartography in relation to power Particularly, opening up more democratic and oppositional purposes Where will mapping go?

21. Two double lectures on The Map: ----------------------------------Week 4----------------------------------- 1.Maps and making knowledge 2.Maps and philosophies of knowledge ----------------------------------Week 5----------------------------------- 3. Maps, domination and resistance 4.Democratisation and Subversion of Maps

22. Key points about the map Maps are powerful representations of spatial realities Their power relies on their partiality – abstraction, mobility, stability Different framings of maps (tools, constructions, partial fictions) illuminate different philosophies of knowledge Considering the role of maps in relations of power illuminates the inseparability of philosophy from both lived experience of space and relations of power and resistance

23. Course Outline The City: Nicky Gregson (wks 2 & 3) The Map: Matt Watson (wks 4 & 5) Nature: Rupert Friederichsen (wks 7 & 8): The Body: Jessica Dubow (wks 9 & 10)