Session Informations:
Sub-session 07.1. Hybrid Mapping and Critical Cartography as Research Methodologies for Cities
Day: Thursday, Sept. 8th
Time: 13:00 – 15:00 (BRT)
Duration: 120 min
Sub-session 07.2. Mapping as an Applied Spatial Research Method for Urban Landscape Design and Planning
Day: Friday, Sept. 9th
Time: 13:45 – 15:45 (BRT)
Duration: 120 min
Sub-session 07.3. Mapping as an Applied Spatial Research Method for Urban Landscape Design and Planning
Day: Saturday, Sept. 10th
Time: 12:45 – 14:45 (BRT)
Duration: 120 min
Sub-sessions Abstracts:
Sub-session 07.1. Hybrid Mapping and Critical Cartography as Research Methodologies for Cities
This panel brings together urban researchers and educators who have applied hybrid mapping or critical cartography as research tools in cities of the world but mainly in the global south. This panel aims to explore innovative mapping techniques (between quantitative, qualitative, and mixed) as ways of collecting, visualizing, and analyzing data. Moreover, it combines inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives, as well as procedural elements into spatial displays. Hybridity as a concept has proliferated in urban studies in various ways, such as the cyborg, (post-)colonial complexities, and the human-nature relationship. In its widest sense, hybridity refers to the multifarious entanglements of human and non-human actors, materialities, and cultural meanings in the contemporary city. Hybridity challenges conventional polarizations, such as informal/formal, public/private, nature/culture, rural/ urban, and technology/human. In spatial research methodology, hybridity has recently appeared as a means to expand critical mapping by ‘designerly ways of knowing’. This effort aims to combine the self-reflective and process-oriented procedures of critical mapping with aspects of affect and emotion, as well as the creativity involved in doing research. Through process-orientation, self-reflection, and design approaches, hybrid mapping can integrate positionality, ‘southern’ perspectives, and indigenous knowledge systems into critical urban research. More importantly, it incorporates these different types of data sets into spatial displays. This approach, in a way, also addresses the contextuality of urban knowledge. The inter- and transdisciplinary nature also allows for flexibility and new knowledge and method production. By doing so, hybrid mapping can potentially contribute to provincializing critical urban research and generating valuable new insights into cities. This session invites all contributors interested in sharing and discussing socio-spatial research topics and teaching that employs or considers hybrid mapping or critical cartography in cities, mainly of the global south. Proposals may include data collection and analysis experiences, critical reflections of these methods, as well as on the kinds of outputs these methods generate.
Sub-session 07.2. and 07.3. Mapping as an Applied Spatial Research Method for Urban Landscape Design and Planning
The urban landscape is an entangled, relational process of the production of space composed of physical forms, organizational systems, and humans. Rather than being a fixed entity it is continually forming and undergoing small shifts in its organization that may have broader ramifications. The urban dynamics accompanied by a transformation of space and social relations call for scientific support. The socio-spatial and Spatio-temporal problems arising in the urban environments require a spatial method approach. Applied spatial research methods focus on exploring, responding to, or investigating particular urban problems rather than generalizing knowledge. Mapping as an explorative analytical tool has been used as a method to understand the visible and invisible spatial, temporal, social, and material as-pects of the urban landscape, as well as discovering nuances that contribute to the debate of potentialities and possibilities. The process of mapping can take various approaches such as artistic or digitized explorative and analytical gestures of individual/group participation and co-production. If mapping was once seen as a top-down neutral objective representation of the real world, today, maps are done in collective and bottom-up approaches like participatory or cognitive mapping processes. Techniques such as sketching mental maps, collaging, counter-mapping, land-use maps, space syntax, machine learning, urban sensing, urban computing, etc. are relevant and widely used by planners and designers to visualize spatial data towards the improvement of planning, design, and governance. The results can be qualitative and quantitative and can be used for both theory building and applied research. This session intends to explore a wide range of mapping techniques that are used as generative methods for the process of urban land-scape planning and design. We, therefore, invite papers that present case studies or tools of applied mapping methods. How can mapping as an ex-plorative qualitative and quantitative method aid in the intelligent gathering of information, to better understand the entangled social-spatial processes that create its physical forms and organization systems that continue to govern urban landscapes? How to combine the interplay of objective and subjective mapping data for urban landscape? What are the main challenges related to the analysis, organization, presentation, and visualization of mapping data?
Paper presentations:
Sub-session 07.1. Hybrid Mapping and Critical Cartography as Research Methodologies for Cities
Moderator: Nicole Baron, Metadel Sileshi Belihu
- Ground Atlas: An Historiographic-Cartographic Decolonizing Socio-Spatial Research
- Authors: David Sperling, Ana Luiza Nobre
- Mapping as a Planning Method of the ‘Urbanized Maritime Coasts’
- Author: Simone de Araujo Pereira
- Hybrid Mapping the Homeless City
- Author:Natalia Martini
- Landscape Transformations in Baixo Augusta, São Paulo
- Authors: Beatriz Salgado Cardoso de Oliveira, Ana Lúcia de Castro
- Common Spaces as Urban Commons: Data Collection and Visualization Through Mapping
- Author: Metadel Sileshi Belihu
- Hybrid Knowledge/Hybrid Mapping: Decolonising Berlin’s Botanical Gardens
- Authors: Vivien Sommer, Jamie Scott Baxter, Séverine Marguin
Sub-session 07.2. Mapping as an Applied Spatial Research Method for Urban Landscape Design and Planning
Moderator: Sanja Avramoska, Gaby Hansen, Talita Heleodoro
- The Urban Condition of Metropolitan Regions – Mapping Complex and Nondiscrete Attributes of the Territory at a Regional Scale
- Author: Sara Maria Boccolini
- Urban Mangrove Delimitation Using a Novel Technique MVI (Mangrove Vegetation Index)
- Authors: Rafael Aguilar Zamudio, Rafael de Castro Catão
- Mapping the Urbanization Impact on a Regional Ecosystem: Historical Cartography on Invasion-Succession of Ligustrum lucidum in the Chaco Forest of Metro Córdoba (2001-2022)
- Authors: Sara Maria Boccolini, Valeria Fenoglio
- Land-Use Change and Greenspace Connectivity in a Large City in Brazil
- Authors: Marina Pannunzio Ribeiro, Kaline de Mello, Roberta Averna Valente
- Mapping as a Method of Spatial Analysis in Land and Urban Regularization: A Case Study at the Neighborhood Jardim Gonzaga in São Carlos, SP
- Authors: Jessica Seabra, Victor Carvalho Cabral, Pedro Fernando Caballero-Campos
- Dynamics of Urban and Population Expansion: The Case of Pato Branco, Paraná, Brasil (1953-2016)
- Author: Adriana Kunen
Sub-session 07.3. Mapping as an Applied Spatial Research Method for Urban Landscape Design and Planning
Moderator: Sanja Avramoska, Gaby Hansen, Talita Heleodoro
- Mapping of Natural Resources as a Learning Process for Local Planning and Sustainability
- Authors: Eliana Cardoso-Leite, Leonardo Ferreira da Silva, Emerson Martins Arruda, Roberta Averna Valente, Vanessa Peixoto Giacon
- Geovisualization as a Process for the Just Provisioning of Green Space in Urban Environments
- Authors: Dayle Shand, Christina A. Breed
- Reclassification and Hybrid Mapping of Vacant Urban Land: Territorial Complexity in Middle Sized Cities in Northern Patagonia, the Case of Trelew
- Authors: Mitchell de Sousa, Andrea Schaer, Cristian Hermosilla, Fernanda Sofía Rodríguez
- Cartography of Controversies: The Polarized Debate About the Future of Minhocão
- Authors: Gabriela Romano López, David Sperling
- Solutions to Biases of Including Elderly Women in Participatory Action Research on Housing Vacancies?
- Author: Ulrike Fettke
- Mapping Objective and Subjective Aspects of the Open Space System for Landscape Planning
- Author: Talita Ines Heleodoro