Narrative Cartography: Capturing a Holistic Perspective on Waterscapes

Nancy Couling; Paola Alfaro d'Alençon; Medine Altiok

doi:10.6092/issn.2612-0496/8808

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Nancy Couling TU Delft http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9946-7051

Nancy Couling is a New Zealand architect who gained her B. Arch (hons) at the University of Auckland, a post-grad scholarship at Iuav, Venice and her PhD at the EPFL, Switzerland. Based in Berlin 1995-2010, she founded her own urban design practice cet-0/cet-01 with S. Schnorbusch (architect) and K. Overmeyer (Landscape architect) and taught at the TU Berlin. Currently a Marie Curie Fellowship holder at the TU Delft, she will take up an Assoc. Professorship at Bergen Architecture School in 2019.
Paola Alfaro d'Alençon TU Berlin

Paola Alfaro d’Alençon is a German architect (AK-Berlin) and urban researcher; Dipl.-Ing. Technische Universität Berlin, 2000. Dr.-Ing. in Urban Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin, 2011 and PhD in Architecture, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2013. Founding Member of the Urban Research and Design Laboratory/u Lab-Studio Berlin, awarded with the “Label Nationale Stadtentwicklung“ for innovative research from the Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBSR). Alfaro d’Alençon has been teaching and working as a senior researcher at the Technische Universität Berlin, Visiting Professor at the Dipartimento di Scienze per l’Architettura, Università degli Studi di Genova.
Medine Altiok RWTH Aachen

Medine Altiok is a German architect, graduated from the AA London. She is founder of Mittelmeerland.org, an initiative dealing with the urban transformation in the Mediterranean territory. She has been teaching Architectural Design at ETH Zurich from 2005-10, as programme director of the *Mittelmeerland*-Visiting Schools at the AA London since 2011 and as Visiting Professor at Bilgi Uni Istanbul in 2016/17. She is currently researching for her PhD with RWTH Aachen and runs her own practice in Zurich.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/8808

Keywords:

waterscapes, narrative cartography, participation, citizen science

Abstract

Water territories challenge inherited, land-based methods of capturing their history. They are a vital commons, where social, technical, political and cultural interests intertwine, potentially also causing conflict. Attention is currently focused both on the ecological importance of the water cycle for human well-being and ecosystem services, as well as on the unpredictable aspects of water through the effects of climate change. This paper argues that such interconnected challenges require new tools and methods of conceptualising and visualising waterscapes. Narrative cartography developed with citizen’s input, reveals itself to be a highly inclusive methodology which can capture neglected knowledge about the past as well as propose visions for the future. This method is discussed in two different geographic contexts through the academic projects Streamscapes in Germany and Mittelmeerland in the Mediterranean.

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