Figures of Thought and the Socius

Design, Creative Mapping, & Education

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  • Arie Graafland

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10.31182/cubic.2018.1.001

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Socius, Mapping Techniques, Education, Teaching Models, Urban Design

Abstract

Starting from a faculty wide discussion on teaching architecture and urbanism in the nineties at the TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture, I develop a brief historical overview of more recent planning and mapping techniques. During the many meetings at the faculty, discussions swept from ‘architectural’ approaches, to ‘computational’, to ‘urban’, and ‘scientific’. Although more professional experts were involved, coming from Maastricht University where new teaching models were introduced earlier on, the meetings never ended in a consensus on how to teach urbanism. What seemed to be lacking was a more historically informed approach. I use James Corner’s four approaches to mapping techniques to show not merely a ‘technique’, but the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of a particular approach. Every planning technique creates its own ‘social field’ in which it operates: the socius.

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Graafland, A. (2019). Figures of Thought and the Socius: Design, Creative Mapping, & Education. Cubic Journal, 1(1), 14–33. https://doi.org/10.31182/cubic.2018.1.001

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2019-04-29

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No. 1: DESIGN SOCIAL: Technology . Activism . Anti-social

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Author Biography

Arie Graafland

Arie Graafland was Visiting Researcher at Nanjing University, Faculty of Architecture, Publishing Cities in Transition, Power, Environment, Society in 2015 (NAi/010 Publishers). Previously he held a Visiting Research Professor position at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), and was the DAAD professor at Anhalt University, teaching at the DIA in Dessau. He was Professor of Architecture Theory at the Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft until 2011 (emeritus). He has lectured internationally and published extensively in these areas. Prof. Graafland was awarded the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek chair in 1999 and founded the Delft School of Design in 2002. He was the editor of The Delft School of Design Series on Architecture and Urbanism with 010 Publishers.

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