The Atlas of Thresholds
Decoding and Reassembling the Atlas as a Critical Spatial Investigation
D. Dinçer (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)
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Abstract
This research explores the emerging spatial conditions in a migrant territory heavily transformed by the bordering practices. It focuses on Turkey's two border cities, Antep and Izmir as the fields of the dispersed bordering practices and multiscalar spatial transformations in the post-2011 context. The Atlas, as the research frame, comprises a series of mappings and a conceptual matrix that enables revising the pervasive codings of mapping practices. With a consistent graphical language elaborated by deliberate editing of mappings, the Atlas's sections become interrelated readings of the territory in which the emergent complexity is beyond the representational capacity of a single map. It uses mixed techniques and cartographic variants, timelines, official statements, visual documentation and satellite imagery to render visible the spatial and scalar links between the territorial entities. It is a twofold device for its researcher and reader: methodological research and an instrument for critical thinking with a post-topological understanding of the migrant territories. [...]