Mapping in research

Lines of Flightis an architectural research group within the PhD programme of the University of Sheffield and the research groupAgency, which focusses on Transformative Research into Architectural Practice and Education.The spaces defined by the lines of flight of our activity serve as place for sharing knowledge, initiating dialogue between ourselves and others, and leave traces as a diary and archive. More info here: https://linesofflight.wordpress.com

Lines of Flight Research Group

How can maps and the activity of mapping be useful in research? What are the potentials and pitfalls? How do we use maps in our everyday life today? 
The Lines of Flight research group will host an open session with Doina Petrescu and Nishat Awan presenting the use of mapping in their work. The talks will be followed by a discussion and an informal presentation round to which we invite participants to bring a map of their liking to be analysed collectively. 
Looking forward to seeing you there! 
About our guest speakers:  Prof. Doina Petrescu is co-founder of the collective platform aaa (atelier d'architecture autogerée/ studio for self-managed architecture) and Professor of Architecture and Design Activism/ Head of Research at Sheffield University. She considers herself as a `nomadic subject´ in architecture operating between different fields of research and practice, places and cultures; a passionate educator, an academic aware of knowledge politics, an engaged practitioner and an active citizen who hopes that other ways of living and creating are possible. Dr. Nishat Awan is lecturer at Sheffield University and is interested in the intersection of geo-politics and space and how this might be addressed in architectural theory and practice, including questions of post-coloniality, diasporas and border practices. Currently, she is working on two research projects: Topological Atlas: Mapping Borders as complex spaces of encounter and Edge of Europe: Migrant Narratives of Citizenship.

Mapping in research

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