The response to the RSD12 (2023) call for contributions exceeded the organisers’ capacity to program an exhibition during the symposium, so contributors have organised this series of Monday mapping studios. Each week is an opportunity to learn about different aspects of systemic design mapping, researchers’ approaches, and how they use mapping in their work.

FOCUS

The three maps presented in this session are maps about mapping that take strikingly different styles. The potent graphics of the Transportation System map (Setty) and extensive accompanying brief exemplify the National Institute of Design approach. The avant-garde approach taken in the Spatialisation and Memory Mapping poster (Wacta & Liu) depicts the ecology and psychogeography of immersion in an urban environment. Smart Cities maps what gives meaning to our life in urban scapes and how to recover lost networks (Ranjan).

PRESENTERS

Christine Wacta
Spatialisation and Memory Mapping: An artistic cartographic method for reconstructing the city (fulsomely described in the related RSD12 paper, Geo-Emotions Cartography and as experienced by participants in the RSD12 workshop, Geospatial Mapping.)

Varruna Setty
Transportation System Design for Indian National Parks

Shreya Ranjan
A Study of Smart Cities for India

Hitesh Shilpi & Vedant Deshmukh
The Circularity Project

COMMENTER

To be announced

HOST & FORMAT

Ryan Murphy | [email protected]

RSD studios have a casual format, starting with a talk by each researcher and moving to a conversation with a guest commenter and assembled guests. This is an invitation into the virtual studio of each researcher, who will share their map via screen share, slides, online whiteboard or other format.

View and download maps from the RSD12 exhibition on Miro.