Mapping Narratives, Practices and Spatial Inquiry

Mapping: Narratives, practices, and spatial inquiry

Gihan Karunaratne

PART I Representation: The Map as a Transformational Device

1. The Revenge of the Straight Line: Smooth and Striated Space in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason and Dixon

Sean Griffiths (University of Westminster/ Modern Architect/Fashion Architecture Taste)

2. Maps as Mediations: Space, Ideology, and the Politics of Representation Kanishka

Goonewardena (University of Toronto)

3. Harvest Mapping

Graeme Brooker, Patrick Quinn (Royal College of Arts), and Joe Trickett (Manchester Metropolitan University)

PART II Mapping and Counter-Mapping: Critical Cartographies of Power and Place

4. Mapping Us and the Empathetic City: Nigel Coates in Conversation with Tom Dyckhoff—Edited and Introduced by Doreen Bernath

Nigel Coates, Tom Dyckhoff (University College London) and Doreen Bernath (Architectural Association)

5. Outside the Baselines: Mapping Hidden Stories in the Postcolonial Colombo

Gihan Karunaratne, Jagath Munasinghe (University of Moratuwa) and Youcao Ren (Sheffield University)

6. Cartography and Mercantile Port Cities in Early Modern Asia: Goa, Batavia, Macau, and Nagasaki

K.B. Izac Tsai (Architectural Association)

7. Cartographic and Filmic Topographies: The Case of Tehran

Hamideh Farahmandian and François Penz (University of Cambridge)

PART III Mapping Belonging: Community, Culture, and Identity

8. Community Mapping of Informal Settlements: Experiences from Maputo, Mozambique

Remígio Chilaule, Gustavo Ribeiro, Cristina Henriques and Johan Mottelson

9. Community, Culture, and Space: Mapping Belonging through Participatory Art in Urban Contexts

Azadeh Fatehrad

10. Mapping Health: Auditing Healthy New Towns in the UK

David Howard and Hannah Grove (University of Oxford)

11. Risky Environments: Transect Investigations in the FEMA Floodplain

Kira Clingen (Harvard University)

PART IV Performative Cartographies: Embodied and Ephemeral Practices

12. Mapping and Its Projective Multi-Dimensionality

Marc Schoonderbeek (TU Delft)

13. Mapping the Everyday

Heidi Saarinen

14. Performative Cartographies: Capturing Ephemerality through Notational Drawing

Angeliki Sakellariou

PART V Mapping with Data

15. Mapping as a Lens to Address Complex Problems

Ed Parham (Space Syntax)

16. Inferring Data through Mapping

Luigi Pintacuda (University of Hertfordshire) and Silvio Carta (University of Greenwich)

17. Overcoming Embedded Logics in Data: Requisite Imagination and Authorship in the Process of Mapping

Anthony Vanky (Columbia University)

Biography

Gihan Karunaratne is an architect and academic whose research engages critically with urban transformation, spatial justice, and informal urbanisms, particularly in the Global South. His work explores the intersection of urban change and the lived experiences of marginalised communities, emphasising the socio-spatial dynamics of informality and resilience. Karunaratne foregrounds often-overlooked dimensions of urban life, offering insights into the structural inequalities that shape contemporary cities. His publications with Routledge, including Informal Settlement of the Global South, Resilient Urbanism, and Displaced Urbanism, contribute significantly to scholarly discourse on architecture, urban design, and the complexities of precarity in rapidly evolving urban contexts.