Future Cartographic

09/28/2016

And what will we we be saying about these places we call home in 2115? 2215? http://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/real-estate-news/washington-dc-past-and-present-a-visual-tour/

06/21/2016

Where do you define the borders of your own neighborhood? Who decides what your neighborhood is even called?

Op-Ed: Staking a claim can help a neighborhood tell its story — so someone else doesn't.

05/31/2016

The startup "What3words" has given every 3 sq meters on earth simple three-word place names in multiple languages. These names are generated by algorithms with help from linguists, and they solve a number of problems in a simple and useful way.

I find myself wanting to find poetry in these names, and it is a bit sad to me that there is no attachment to local culture in the place names.

This post was written from the 3 square meters known as "happen.burns.same" Much has happened to me here, only metaphorical burns, the same may happen to you.

Spots near where MLK stood as he gave his "I have a dream speech" have names that include shades.shine.bill, image.ballots.lock, advice.pizza.fight, melon.terms.vets. Some of these words are accidentally resonant with history. Some are accidentally dissonant. Meanwhile, a spot in the Natick Shopping Mall outside Boston has been assigned the name "dream.king.speech."

The company what3words assigned every 10-square-foot block of space in the world a new name. It makes more sense than you'd think.

05/11/2016

Angela D'Avignon on performance art and "hypersolitude" as tools for reclaiming the city.

Urban areas are not built for women, and artists have long been adept at pointing this out

05/05/2016

DC! Be on the look out for these six time-traveling, story-telling phone booths. Learn about the 20th and 23rd Centuries of U Street. A Future Cartographic Society collaboration with installation artist Alex Braden, curator/artist Seshat Walker, and Funk Parade.

ORAL HISTORIES/
ORAL FUTURES

04/15/2016

Totally possible, it seems. But, do we want to hide?

David Kipping,

04/11/2016

Digging in on this new book of research-based stories about the future from Arizona State's Project Hieroglyph

Slow Catastrophes, Uncertain Revivals is a collection of research-based stories about the future, proudly published by Project Hieroglyph. The book features stories created by students in “Slow Catastrophes,...

04/08/2016

Doesn't matter what room you're entering next. Your perceptions will be challenged.

04/07/2016

We're moving increasingly towards "smart cities." Should we instead be pushing for cities of the future to be "human-centric cities" first?

It’s no use turning cities into data mines without putting human needs at the forefront