James Corner is an American Landscape Architect and theorist. His 1999 essay The Agency of Mapping; Speculation, Critque and Invention in Mappings explores the potential creative capacity of mapping processes.
“As a creative practice, mapping precipitates its most productive effects through a finding that is also a founding; its agency lies in neither reproduction or imposition but rather in uncovering realities previously unseen or unimagined, even across seemingly exhausted grounds. Thus mapping unfolds potential; it re-makes territory over and over again, each time with new and diverse consequences.”A pdf copy of the essay is available online here
The drawings in this post are taken from James Corner's book; Taking Measures Across the American Landscape
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