Playful Mapping in the Digital Age

THEORY ON DEMAND

Theory on Demand #21 Playful Mapping in the Digital Age Authors: Playful Mapping Collective (Clancy Wilmott, Chris Perkins, Sybille Lammes, Sam Hind, Alex Gekker, Emma Fraser, Daniel Evans) Editorial support: Miriam Rasch Copy-editing: Leonieke van Dipten Cover Design: Katja van Stiphout Design: Leonieke van Dipten EPUB development: Leonieke van Dipten Printer: Print on demand Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2016 ISBN: 978-94-92302-13-7 Contact Institute of Network Cultures Phone: +3120 5951865 Email: info@networkcultures.org Web: http://www.networkcultures.org This publication is available through various print on demand services. For more information, and a freely downloadable PDF: http://networkcultures.org/publications This publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Playful Mapping in the Digital Age

Published on Dec 12, 2016

Institute of Network Cultures

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From Mah-Jong, to the introduction of Prussian war-games, through to the emergence of location-based play: maps and play share a long and diverse history. This monograph shows how mapping and playing unfold in the digital age, when the relations between these apparently separate tropes are increasingly woven together. Fluid networks of interaction have encouraged a proliferation of hybrid forms of mapping and playing and a rich plethora of contemporary case-studies, ranging from fieldwork, golf, activism and automotive navigation, to pervasive and desktop-based games evidences this trend. Examining these cases shows how mapping and playing can form productive synergies, but also encourages new ways of being, knowing and shaping our everyday lives. The chapters in this book explore how play can be more than just an object or practice, and instead focus on its potential as a method for understanding maps and spatiality. They show how playing and mapping can be liberating, dangerous, subv

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