Mapping as a communal act
Collective atlas of untranslatable spaces
M. Liro (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Dan C. Baciu – Mentor (TU Delft - History, Form & Aesthetics)
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Abstract
Nowadays, globalization is stressing local cultures and ways of living - what risks to be lost are the multiple forms of use of spaces and the meaning connected to their presence. There is an overall sensitivity over the conservation of buildings but less over little daily rituals and instinctual gestures connected with the real meaning of space: an immaterial heritage on the threshold of architecture and anthropology that both disciplines seem to have discarded. Forgotten by conventional conservation methods, I aim to portray this patrimony
through collective mapping. Based on an analysis of historical examples of collaborative cartography, I intend to develop an analytical framework allowing
anybody to contribute to this collection of images and stories of different societies of the world by submitting a space involving a name, a gesture, and a meaning related to a specific culture. The research results in an open-source, collective atlas - a new archive created by collecting contributions based on a questionnaire explaining features of untranslatable spaces necessary to identify them.