EGA (Mar 2018)
Urban cartographies: The graphic representation of the conflict in public spaces
Abstract
Contemporaneousness has represented, in different formats, situations that are socially unstable and capable of transforming urban public spaces. The 20th century, since its beginnings, has been proof of that, generating documents of irregular technical quality but of undoubted interest. Those who have elaborated them have participated, sometimes individually and in some other times as a collective, creating planimetries that contribute to the understanding of conflictive situations in present-day Europe. This context has brought about a renewed reading and a generation of maps that reflect these sociopolitical upheavals. Faced with plans of a precise nature and with an eagerness to record reality, in the face of propositional documents that reflect the planned evolution of populations and territories, we present some cartographies that, simultaneously, contemplate unforeseen transformations of the existing city, ephemeral, while establishing future developments of uncertain materialization. It is a unique set of documents that concentrate layers of cartographic and social information transcendent for our time.
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