Cartographic Imaginations

[a2] gather and ground

BRINGING TOGETHER OR ASSEMBLING FROM VARIOUS PLACES, SOURCES, OR PEOPLE

problem statement

The students engaged a wide range of natural, cultural, and urban histories. Geographically they began to hone into the geography of water and land within the Skagit Valley. However, they kept the scope of their investigations at the watershed scale and developed a cartographic exploration through the method of a photo collage.
“Mapping precipitates its most productive effects through a finding this is also a founding; its agency lies in neither reproduction nor imposition but rather in uncovering realities previously unseen or unimagined, even across seemingly exhausted grounds. Thus mapping unfolds potential” […]
James Corner, “The Agency of Mapping”