Research Agenda InSituEx

Mixed Mapping

How can diverse embodied perspectives be visualized in terms of space, time, and value? Within the research agenda InSituEx, the area "Mixed Mapping" reflects on artistic approaches like montage or collage techniques and multiple points of view to challenge standardized representations of spatial, temporal, and evaluative relations in the form of floor plans, timelines, scales, etc. The goal is to establish a technique of design mapping that allows for multimodal visualizations of experiences from different human and nonhuman positions.

In doing so, we seek to avoid what Donna Haraway described as "the god trick of seeing everything from nowhere" (1988, 581), i.e., the panoptic or bird's-eye view, and instead conceptualize space, time, and value as differences between situated agents, or what Bruno Latour called "oligoptica," from where "sturdy but extremely narrow views of the (connected) whole are made possible" (2005, 181). Our intended project on "Mixed Mapping" will be carried out in collaboration with visual artists in an arts-based research process.