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This is sort of the foetus of my '3D or thick Map' model. The idea is to map an individual's experience of the city through a set of territories expanding from body to building and architecture scale. Up to this point she jumped on a bus on the way to work but I have to stop a bit here to re-think what I'm trying to get out of this.

Anyway.

A nice quote on furniture as territory:


"...enables the body to be most directly affected by, but also protected from, the chaos of every outside: "For our most intimate or most abstract endeavours, whether they occur in bed or on a chair, furniture supplies the immediate physical environment in which our bodies act and react: for us, urban animals, furniture is thus our primary territory."

I think it was Deleuze.

So the idea of this map evolved from the notion of 'diffused city' whereby an individual impose upon herself sets of limits which, through this 3D map, creates a territory of her own city. To some extent she is confined into the interiority of the domicile, the mobile, and the commercial - a city as fragments of limits that constantly expanding and contracting. I still, however, do not know what I'm questioning or critiquing. 

Another quote on map vs. experience of a space:

"...the point is a simple one that is now echoed in a critical literature on cartography -that hegemonic types of mapping represent space as a 'completed horizontality' - in which the dynamism of change is exorcised in favour of a totality of connections. Mapping is one of a number of ways in which the disruptiveness of space is tamed"


So perhaps I could explore this 'disruptiveness' through the idea of 'confinement' instead of connectivity. 




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