Introduction

Abstract

The map is a descriptive and navigational tool, just as the process of mapping is one of simultaneous recognition and creation. Theresa Stopani, in an essay on mapping, situates this multidirectional impulse as a foundational premise: Mapping is the locus of the project: the descriptive and generative tool that is capable of producing and accommodating together the many and different possible unfoldings of the project(s). Mapping is always an incomplete and insufficient description and its incompleteness remains open to the condensation of multiple possibilities.1