To configure earth, human, spiritual information and moments of mutual association, inevitable collision…

Civilizing Terrains draws out a further bend in this conversation, considering the fundamental surfaces where these connections occur a set of models in themselves. In geomorphosis: decomposition of mountain to plain, “each [mountain is] a statement about the relationship between forces of change, material, structure and microclimate. The result is a model [or diagram or map for our purposes] illustrating the transformation of vertical mass and volume through decomposition…”
Matter’s the proxy for the non- particle, for energy? Mention to Ellora’s Kailas intends this maybe– where the mountain itself stands as effigy to the divine version of the same name. Carving a mountain out of a mountain a two hundred year way. A full scale model, the Bourges map.


Cosgrove closed his introduction with the referenced suggestion that the spatial and technical practices and readings pulled through from cartographic history no longer hold. The zoom function discussed in the final page of the Columbia project offers the integral solution to the charge of the rhizomatic map. And how modern an apparatus. Distanced information at once proximate, and the ideal for our age. "Information is the oxygen of the networks that make up our cities" More open source then, for better maps.

What capacities, what stagings, what engagements will be sold in the cartographic future?