SPATIAL MODELING Songlines and Tactile Mapping Exercise LADN 311 Design Studio Assignment 03/2010 - 04/2010, 4 weeks Site: Centre Business Distirct, Wellington, NZ Course Coordinator: Meaghan P. Delaney
Project Discription Tactile Mapping is an ancient technique far beyond moden use for visually impaired personal use. History shows the Maori people have a long tradition in recording geographical and navigational information through crafting. Through this, they were able to relate their own sense of being, expressed in cosmology, genealogy, history, and lived experience, in the oral map that is laid on the landscape. The strong human sensitivity of material and texture through skin gives us an unique approach to feel the world differently. This assignement started by randomly choose a song to listen while walking though urban streets, create a path of journey based on the emotional influence from the music and the spatial characters. Then, back to the studio, trace and categorise the spatial characters on the journey. Through the organising of spatal qualities destinguished by the definistion of Intersitial Space and Iminal Space, we were be able to commencing a tactile mapping of the journey on handcraft wood model, as well as digital Rehino model and a 3D print machine fabrication.
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