ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the initial stirrings of immersive cartography in the first year of the author’s PhD study, and follows the evolution of cartographic concepts and techniques as they came to proliferate across the social and environmental milieus of a university campus in regional Australia. Drawing on the installation of environmental artworks in the author’s States and Territories project, it explores the problem of how a cartography can create maps that you can actually walk into, focusing on the cultivation of conceptual and artistic techniques that continuously begin in the middle, or “milieu”, of inquiry. Through a close engagement with Deleuze’s account of a cartography-art and the cultivation of intensive and extensive mapping techniques, this chapter also develops a detailed description of how these creative techniques of inquiry eventually came to transform the physical and conceptual architectures of a university campus.
