Cartography of the factual, actual, and/or imaginary

• Main Author: Synychych, Chelsea
• Other Authors: Tate, Alan (Landscape Architecture)
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: landscape; architecture; cartography; perception; interview; Manitoba; map
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/22148

Amongst other complexities, landscape architecture is a discipline about understanding, expressing, and enhancing relationships between people and the land. This practicum focuses on revealing these relationships through cartographic concepts within self interpretation and interview, with a consciousness towards the biases that are embedded within mapped products. As maps are used on a daily basis in the discipline of landscape architecture, it should be considered a responsibility of the designer to have an understanding of the implications these tools possess. The Shell River Valley in Manitoba acted as a site of exploration with the intention of revealing human perceptions through cartographic methods of those who have relationships with the land.