Mapping
Basics
Basics
What are maps usually used for?
Showing where things are or giving directions
What kind of mapping shows how people see and think about their surroundings?
Cognitive mapping
The country where the neighborhood of El Chorrillo is located.
Panama
Powell argues that mapping can reveal these kinds of hidden or silenced stories.
Restrained or out-of-reach narratives
How does Powell say we should think about mapping instead?
A way to explore how people experience places
What kind of mapping shows relationships and movement between people in a community?
Social mapping
The name of the 1989 U.S. military action that devastated large areas of the El Chorrillo neighborhood.
Operation Just Cause
The inclusion of artistic and sensory mapping helps disrupt this kind of representation.
Linear or totalizing representation
What does “embodied mapping” mean?
Showing how people feel and move in a place
What kind of mapping shows how people connect and organize ideas?
Concept mapping
The primary academic field of the article's author, Kimberly Powell.
Art Education
Mapping that incorporates multiple sensory experiences contributes to this kind of understanding of place.
Embodied understanding
What idea about maps does Powell disagree with?
The Myth of cartographic objectivity
What art method did Powell’s students use to mix pictures and ideas in new ways?
Collage
Thus visual methods have the capacity for rendering ______ or complex forms of experience
elusive
Powell calls for educators to teach mapping not as technical skill but as this kind of practice.
Critical and aesthetic pedagogy
What three things does mapping connect, according to Powell?
Place, experience, and community
When mapping uses pictures, senses, and stories together, what kind of research is it?
Arts-based research
The government-sponsored office that was responsible for the urban renovation of El Chorrillo and was an audience for the research.
Oficina de Antigua
The ultimate purpose of multisensory mapping, according to Powell.
To evoke lived experience and challenge dominant narratives of place