Maps of the Imagination

The first part of the last class session was spent looking over our visual maps. We must now redraw them using pencil so we can try to foster our intuition.

Idea     ----process---->    architecture    ------->   experience

Chapter 1 - Metaphor: Or, the Map

1. "Every step is an advance into new land."
2. great conflicts
3. meaningful discoveries
4. organize information
5. maps suggest explanations
6. exploration
7. "Tell me a story."
8. overlap, intermingle and impersonate
9. "assertive action in the face of uncertain assumptions"
10. presentation
11. "Artistic creation is a voyage into the unknown."
12. pointlessly lost
13. risk of failure
14. invented answers
15. "What lies beyond the stars?"
16. contemplate a world
17. "objective" or "faithful"
18. governed by intention
19. enchantment and beauty transcend the rational
20. no particular place to go
21. ecstatic fruitfulness
22. exhilarating moments
23. "the technique"
24. methods of expression
25. the muses
26. trailblazers
27. well-worn path
28. "Sometimes it's very tempting to be satisfied with what's easy."
29. preconception
30. to translate one's sensation
31. obsessive devotion
32. spontaneity
33. creative shaping
34. passionate excesses
35. irrational and useless beauty
36. the howl of the Beats
37. the delirium of Dada
38. pilgrimage
39. into the interior of the self
40. benchmark
41. restrict the prescriptive
42. balance of intuition and intention
43. tantalizing in its brevity

Chapter 2: A Wide Landscape of Snows
1. "by its indefiniteness, it shadows forth"
2. immensities of the universe
3. a world of possibility
4. spoiled blanks
5. internal struggle
6. premapping
7. locate onself
8. scenic route
9. sense of place
10. paths of spiritual energy
11. "season-on-the-line"
12. placing themselves
13. deliberately withheld
14. mapmaker's culture
15. "a perfect and absolute blank"
16. aggressive tendencies
17. insufficient curiosity
18. "I love white spaces, love the telling omission..."
19. urban myths
20. spiritual landmarks
21. to destroy false notions
22. fanciful fripperies
23. provocative
24. sounds and smells are difficult to map
25. primarily visual
26. "My map absorbs me with what it does not reveal."
27. unfathomable void
28. surrounded by blankness
29. the world's overwhelming richness
30. "...everything in my head interests, moves and excites me."
31. "Don't go there."
32. putter-inners
33. leaver-outers
34. selection and compression
35. naturalism
36. persuasive whole
37. The Way Finder
38. "We aspire to a kind of magic."
39. the unblank
40. principle of the iceberg
41. "...desiring the darkening effect of ink"
42. explicit depiction
43. tabula rasa