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New Geographies 4

Scales of The Earth

Auteur:El Hadi Jazairy

Uitgever:Harvard University Press

ISBN: 978-1-934510-27-8

  • Paperback
  • Engels
  • 184 pagina's
  • 5 aug. 2011

The first Apollo images of the Earth have produced a perspective enabling humanity to act on Earth and its nature as if it controlled it from "outside." The recent developments of satellite technologies have had a significant impact on the modes of representations as well as the conceptions of geography and space. Today, the visualization modes of geospatial information, which offer layering, zooming and panning navigation tools that capture world landscapes through vertical perspectives, reinforce the concept of the Earth as an "object." Furthermore, the integration and superimposition of geographical information strengthen the Universalist ideal of knowledge while reducing it to a scientific and abstract visual database. This new "geography from above" -the home, the city, entire territories, the Earth itself, the Moon, Mars and beyond- redefine our environment, subjectivities and practises. With such tools at hand, architects conceive of the geographic as a possible scale, site of intervention and design approach.

The first Apollo images of the Earth have produced a perspective enabling humanity to act on Earth and its nature as if it controlled it from "outside." The recent developments of satellite technologies have had a significant impact on the modes of representations as well as the conceptions of geography and space. Today, the visualization modes of geospatial information, which offer layering, zooming and panning navigation tools that capture world landscapes through vertical perspectives, reinforce the concept of the Earth as an "object." Furthermore, the integration and superimposition of geographical information strengthen the Universalist ideal of knowledge while reducing it to a scientific and abstract visual database. This new "geography from above" -the home, the city, entire territories, the Earth itself, the Moon, Mars and beyond- redefine our environment, subjectivities and practises. With such tools at hand, architects conceive of the geographic as a possible scale, site of intervention and design approach.

The scale of vision, viewpoint and qualification of space made possible by satellite imagery reframe contemporary debates on design, agency and territory. Volume 4 of New Geographies, invites sumissions of articles and projects that critically address the relationship of space with such modes of representation. What are the characteristics of such an integrated elevated vision and what geographical knowledge does it bring forth? In this data-space, which information is to be retained as relevant? How is such an analytical space to be subsequently interpreted and experienced? What are the cultural, political and environmental repercussions of a vision celebrated as objective and Universalist? what new global issues and debates do such scales of vision raise and how do such visualizations of the Earth-as-home intesect with concerns of ecology and calls for global awarness?

Contents:

EL HADI JAZAIRY TOWARD A PLASTIC CONCEPTION OF SCALE
ROBIN KELSEY REVERSE SHOT: EARTHRISE AND BLUE MARBLE IN THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION
NICHOLAS DE MONCHAUX CITIES AND CYBERNETICS
STUART ELDEN THE SPACE OF THE WORLD
MARC ANGELIL AND CARY SIRESS DISCOUNTING TERRITORY: LOGISTICS AS CAPITAL PRINCIPLE OF SPATIAL PRACTICES
STEPHEN GRAHAM GLOBAL HOMELANDS: SECURITY AND EXTRATERRITORIALIZATION
NATHALIE ROSEAU RESCALING URBAN MATTER: THE CITY VIEWED FROM THE AIR
FREDERIC POUSIN AERIAL VIEWS AND THE FUTURE OF METROPOLITAN PARIS
KELLY SHANNON AND BRUNO DE MEULDER AND ANNELIES DE NIJS FROM ABOVE FROM BELOW: THE CASE OF CANTHO
NINA EDWARDS ANKER AND PEDER ANKER VIEWING THE EARTH FROM WITHOUT OR FROM WITHIN
ALEX MACLEAN A SOUTHWESTERN PERSPECTIVE
HASHIM SARKIS THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ARCHITECTURE: BEYOND COSMOPOLIS
ADNAN MORSHED ASCENDING WITH NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON: BUCKMINSTER FULLER'S IDEATION OF THE GENIUS
OLA SODERSTROM HOW IMAGES ASSEMBLE THE URBAN WORLD

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