Territory, Imaginary, Ecology A Critical Cartography of the Sky

Abstract

My research will provide an alternative way of researching and representing the global airspace as an urbanized sphere of action and aims to bridge the gap between historical phenomenological perception of the sky, and a flattened technological aesthetic of the atmosphere, proposing a multi-sensory and multi-scalar medium to re-think rising celestial architectural typologies. By drawing on Erwin Panofsky’s classic reflections on perspective as symbolic form, the background of concepts and imaginaries is re-built by looking at today’s perspective as a mode of representation to be critically reconsidered. By examining folding, wrapping, projecting and the process of flattening while creating maps, the architectural agency of drawing borders around space and finding shape for concepts, may encounter an additional ecological dimension.