Category: Geonarratives
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Less-than-human geographies
[W]here this world means potentially a hillside of shallow graves sticky with mud, blood, brain, guts, spades, cartridges and unutterable inhuman horror. Stripped down; hollowed out, winnowed away; splintered, shattered, smashed; dis-assembled, dis-located, dis-membered; subtracted from, again, again, again: such is the melancholy cry, or embittered scream, of a less-than-human…
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Scents and sensibility
What scents shape the city? How does scent contribute to placemaking? How do we design smell environments in the city? Victoria Henshaw, 2013 In Nikolai Gogol’s satirical short story The Nose (1836), Collegiate Assessor Kovalev’s nose went missing. “The nose can’t have removed itselfof sheer idiocy,” Kovalev thought. The nose…
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Creating a fictional city
Fictional cities … invite us to explore extraordinary urban landscapes that either defy the constraints of reality or let us better examine them. The Other Atlas The city can be an imagination. In most science fiction films, a city is transformed to resemble a space with radically changed structures, citizenry…
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Autobiographical memories of places
Memories of place can produce different social ramifications for different people. On one hand, nostalgia can play a significant role in reminiscences that can romanticise places (see also what media scholar John Fiske said about indulging in nostalgia); on the other hand, there is a propensity for ‘appropriating places’ through…
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UP captured on 15 x 10 cm papers
“Micro” Mapping of UP Diliman In two undergraduate Geography 1 (Places and landscapes in a changing world) classes, micromapping the campus was instituted and assigned by Assistant Professor Fernand Francis Hermoso not only to assess the students’ highly subjective cartographic imagination of their campus, but also enable them to concretise…
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