Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Cartography's evolution

The topologies

After the Metaphysic was turned down, the contemporary science schemes took control of the world. This interest in rediscovering the truth within, lead through new science theories, such as Heidegger’s theorie of Caos, with its dynamic systems. This way, new mathematic models were discovered such as: Moebius Strip and further on Klein’s bottle which both reflected the continuum (the continuous overlapping space-time). This would be carried on as ideas for new architecture, developing new abstract possibilities bearing deeply inside the idea of continuum and fluxes.


An Esthetic and Political Model of the Virtual

The improvements on technologies are also reflected in the way We represent the space. We've gone from an immovable reality, with unmodifiable limits, to another in which the only constant is the existence of the changing flux itself. It turns the cartography into a wide complex tissue that is ment to show the different aspects of existence.



New Visibilities

We have always tried to know the unknown, maps turns to be a tool to solve this, abstracting the infinite reality to make it finite and measurable, this way the problem appears when we don’t get an answer and we need to create a language of diagrams to understand what we are looking for, although sometimes can take us to new problems, and new maps in an exponential way, is a matter of reality interpretation.

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