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- The Map Is Not the Territory
The Map Is Not the Territory
- Abstract
- To design is not merely to find a solution for a problem. This would imply the definition of the problem would have to be completely known and fixed in advance, and that out of all possible solutions, the most optimal one would have to be found. But ‘wicked problems’ rarely answer to that. Therefore, designers use drawings and sketches to make comparisons with what they already know from reality. By making moves and adaptations, they are able to re-frame the definition of the problem. Drawings, maps and eventually the city itself should be considered as objects of adaptation, as postulated by Rein Geurtsen in his educational courses at Delft University of Technology in the 1980s. Drawings have the unique potential to evoke narratives that can serve as a collective frame of thought for all participants involved. They equally concern the city as a building, as a narrative and as a public arena.
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- Citation
- Broekhuisen, P. (2020). The Map Is Not the Territory. The Drawing in Landscape Design and Urbanism, OASE, (107), 87–92. Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/107/TheMapIsNottheTerritory
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- Editors of this issue
- Frits Palmboom, Bruno Notteboom, Kornelia Dimitrova, Bart Decroos
- Authors
- Nitin Bathla & Sumedha Garg, Paul Broekhuizen, Chiara Cavalieri, Kees Christiaanse, Elke Couchez, Roberto Damiani, Koenraad Danneels, Gini Lee & Antonia Besa, Gianna Lobosco, William Mann, Julie Marin & Bruno De Meulder, Frits Palmboom, Sandra Parvu, Pieter Schengenga, Holger Schurk, Marialessandra Secchi & Marco Voltini, Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, Marc Treib, Bram van Kaathoven
- Design
- Karel Martens & Aagje Martens
- November 2020
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- ISBNISBN 978-94-6208-578-7
- © Stichting OASE, 2020
- Subsidising institutions
- Creative Industries Fund NL, Van Eesteren-Fluck & Van Lohuizen Foundation
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