ABSTRACT
The shifting nature of the geopolitical events has triggered a debate around the notions of territory and/or territoriality. Information is gathered and presented through screens and displays, while paper seems to subsist only as an occasional support. The near disappearance of material representations of geographical data, with their stable, time-freezing, figuration of the world, runs parallel to the upsurge in interest in tracing a more flickering, fluctuating, mobile- and event-related reality. In parallel to the upheavals taking place in the geo-sciences and cartography, design disciplines and artistic practices have exhibited a growing fascination with theories informing geography and a readiness to borrow mapping tools. The geographic and mapping fever of the last decades, rather than indicating, as has been suggested, a ‘geographic turn’ or even a ‘geological turn’, may instead be a symptom of deep anxiety about the waning agency of architects, urban designers, planners, and landscape architects.
