Multi-Scale More-than-Human Atlas Gigamapping

Marie Davidová, Elena Porqueddu, Hanane Behnam, and María Claudia Valverde Rojas

The workshop is an opportunity to explore—from a multi-scale and transdisciplinary more-than-human perspective—the potential to extend the intense biodiversity of Oslo’s Kuba Park across the Vulkan concrete jungle and the bio-corridor that unfolds from Maridasvannet to Oslo’s Bay, along Akerselva. 

The investigation is conducted by combining two different mapping techniques: the Multi-Scale Atlas and gigamapping. Participants from different disciplines are asked to walk through Kuba Park and Vulkan and detect—from their own perspective and field of expertise—the potential for interventions aimed at triggering multiple cross-scale good perturbations (spatial, ecological, social, etc.) in the specific urban ecosystem. This activity leads to the emergence of a new co-designed gigamap aimed at highlighting leverage points for multiple and transdisciplinary design actions that can enhance the continuity and biodiversity of the Akerselva bio-corridor. While, during this workshop, maps are based on data collected through a quick, direct experiential observation, the Atlas could be implemented and updated through further data collection, which would require a longer period of investigation, extending beyond the time of the workshop and across larger scales.  

KEYWORDS: gigamapping, holistic diagnosis, socioecological systems, systemic design, codesign, spatial design

RSD TOPIC(S): Architecture & Planning, Cases & Practice, Learning & Education, Mapping & Modelling, Methods & Methodology, Socioecological Design.

Venue: Oslo, Norway

Date: October 12–26, 2024