Playful Mapping in the Digital Age
Contributors: Perkins, Chris; Lammes, Sybille; Hind, Sam; Gekker, Alex; Fraser, Emma; Evans, Daniel
Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9789492302137
Subjects: Computing & information technology
Description: 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, subversive and performative.
Notes: H2020 European Research Council 693426 H2020

FP7 Ideas: European Research Council 283464 FP7

English.