mission
A meta critical tool, that assembles territorial mapping efforts, as a repository of knowledge – readily available to scholars and architects, but also providing a platform, – a space for reflection on the various types of cartography being produced and paid for by governments, agencies, private and commercial endeavours, research and learning institutes, to study underlying agendas, and allow for alternative uses and other potential cultural outcomes, having direct implications on the production of territories and ensuing architecture.
This observatory positions itself in the line of other observatories established in the 19th and 20th centuries, by Patrick Geddes and his Outlook Tower, Élisée Reclus’ project for the Grand Globe, Paul Otlet’s Mundaneum, Buckminster Fuller’s World Game, or Richard Saul Wurman’s Urban Atlas.
cartographic observatory for architecture 