Building Digital Stories: Architecture and Cartography Meet Documentary and Journalism. (5th September 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Killing, Alison
• Other Names: Bryant Chris guestEditor.; Rodgers Caspar guestEditor.; Wigfall of alma‐nac Tristan guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 88:Number 5(2018)
• Page Start: 30
• Page End: 37
• Publication Date: 2018-09-05
• Subjects: Wonderland -- Manual for Emerging Architects -- Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) -- The Future for Architects? -- Building Futures programme -- Killing Architects -- Rotterdam -- Migration trail -- North Africa -- Turkey -- podcast -- Creative Industries Fund NL -- Netherlands Film Fund -- Dutch Media Fund -- Arts Council England -- The Space/WIRED Creative Innovation Fellowship -- Google Maps -- Leaflet -- open‐source JavaScript library -- OpenStreetMap -- Mapbox -- Libyan smugglers -- Hungarian border closures -- Calais; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2339
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract : Architects' skills of spatial analysis and representation can be put to good use in surprisingly diverse fields. In the case ofAlison Killing, whose studio Killing Architects is based in Rotterdam, they serve to raise public awareness and understanding of topical issues such as migration and climate change. She reveals what motivated her to branch out in this direction, describes a recent self‐initiated project in detail, and notes how the Netherlands' well‐known culture of encouraging designers to pursue research has helped.