Mapping methods
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Walking
The mapping methods took inspiration of the thoughts on
”walkscapes” from Careri (2002) by appreciating the significance of walking through a landscape as a way to enable critical thinking and subjective, autonomous interpretation and understanding of a physical place. I walked through my site at least a dozen of times, which in combination with documentation tools such as photography, sketches, and writing revealed layers of understanding in my reflection after/during these walks.
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Directed dérive
The notion of ”walking as an artistic practice” was agreeing well with the second mapping method I used to understand the site. This was ”directed dérivé” (Östlund, 2017), a variation of the ”dérive” which means “drift”, or “attempting to derive a deeper understanding of a place” by following every impulse of your senses to guide you through a place (Sadler, 1998). In directed dérive you are intended to do this as well, but based upon certain pre-decided factors that you are to react to, and let the impulses from these reactions be your guide (Östlund, 2017).
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Documentation tools
Photography and photogrammetry were mainly used for site documentation, which also conveyed the criteria of the directed dérive:
- Signs of abandonment
- Presence of natural life
- Traces of human activity
- Movements
- Historic traces
- Meetings between materials
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Evaluating documentation material
During the assessment of the documentation I noticed that the impressions from the walks could be categorized into three layers of the site based on what the photographs contained: natural, material, and social traces, as explained in the above sketch.
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