Alternate Cartographies and Writing/Reading as Desire Paths
embodied mapping can offer insight into “desire lines,” all those paths people carve through the city that might not align with official transit routes and pedestrian conduits.
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
uncover question-paths. Akin to desire-paths—trodden walkways representing where one wants to go, rather than where they’re expected to—questions-paths are here defined as conceptual, visual, or physical routes that encourage and necessitate one’s capacity for curiosity. With question-paths, much, like falling down a rabbit hole, curiosity helps us
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I’ve talked about architecture for a long time. I feel like it emerged out of questions I used to have — or answers I used to find — in the city. I used to want to write about the city all the time and a lot of my books take place in cities. Then I used to talk about the sentence as a city, as a space to... See more
I’ve talked about architecture for a long time. I feel like it emerged out of questions I used to have — or answers I used to find — in the city. I used to want to write about the city all the time and a lot of my books take place in cities. Then I used to talk about the sentence as a city, as a space to... See more