Spacetimes Matter reframes mapping as a critical methodology for decoding the layered, dynamic entanglements of space and time that shape contemporary urban and ecological life — moving well beyond cartography as documentation.
About This Book
This anthology assembles a range of interpretative, qualitative, and reflexive mapping approaches that collectively ask: how do we represent processes that are multiple, shifting, and irreducible to a single spatial or temporal frame? The contributors — working across artistic, performative, computational, and game-based modes — introduce spacetime mapping as a methodology attuned to decolonial and more-than-human perspectives. For urban researchers, spatial practitioners, and design scholars grappling with socio-spatial dynamics and ecological complexity, the book provides both theoretical grounding and concrete methodological protocols. It situates mapping not as neutral record-keeping but as a political and imaginative act.
Key Features
- 248 pages of methodological essays, interpretative mappings, multimodal diagrams, and documentation of immersive virtual environments
- Edited by Jamie-Scott Baxter, Anna Juliane Heinrich, Séverine Marguin, and Vivien Sommer
- Published by JOVIS Verlag, ISBN 9783986122508
What You'll Discover
- How spacetime mapping reconceives spatiality and temporality as plural and co-constitutive rather than fixed coordinates
- A spectrum of mapping protocols — from artistic and performative practices to game development and immersive virtual environments — each with its own methodological logic
- In-depth reflections grounded in diverse regional and disciplinary contexts, demonstrating how mapping methods must be responsive to their specific conditions
- How decolonial and more-than-human frameworks challenge inherited assumptions in urban research and spatial representation
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 248
- Dimensions: 21.0 x 28.5 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783986122508
- Publisher: JOVIS Verlag
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Urban researchers, spatial designers, and academics working at the intersection of critical cartography, more-than-human theory, and socio-spatial analysis.