Post on 20-Jun-2015
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The good
The bad
‘The ignorant’
CulturalLandscape
Landscapeheritage
Ethics
Maps,information
The good, the bad and the ignorant:
Ethics and landscape heritage maps
Sophie Visser Symposium Mapping Ethics Lausanne, April 14-15, 2011
Personal background
-M. Sc. In Chemistry & Informatics
-Career in information systems (organization & user oriented)
-M.A. in (Historical) Geography 2006
-Independent consultant LandZij/ PhD student Utrecht University
Landscape heritage maps:
‘hardly useful’ – why?
Example : “Main heritage structure“ map, Province of South-Holland
ÞDoes what it says (‘main structure’) Þbut: - (too) selective
- no object-names - no object-information
Example: “Knowledge Infrastructure Cult. Heritage”, National system, < 2010
ÞRepresents ‘knowledge’ ?! Þ - selectivity!
- object-names : yes - object-information : hardly
-Appears to show more objects-But: -point icons for everything -hardly ‘real’ landscape objects + information => e.g. 3 unnamed objects + 7 general descriptions
Example: “Knowledge Infrastructure Cult. Heritage”, National system, > 2010
‘Social responsibility framework’ for maps (and more …..)
Levels (aggregated) Is about
Map as visualization ‘clear’ + useful
Landscape heritage & information what + why present + information
Choices & criteria ‘why’ (or not)
Process & method
Policy & process context
Effects & impacts on use & users Practical /emotional effects => on use
Effects & impacts on society Impacts on landscape
In the present
Towardsthe future
More background: what, how, whom, why (or not)
‘Social responsibility framework’ (2)
=> Judged from a local perspective
Framework levels Province KICH < 2010 KICH > 2010
Map visualization +/- + - Landscape heritage & information +/- Region-dependent:
- - +-
Choices & criteria
Process & method
Policy & process context
Effects & impacts on use & users
What do with it? Not for landscape…
Hardly used in general?
Effects & impacts on society
√
e.g. – non-mapped cultural history? - status, power, …?
~general
in recentreports
~general
Policies from‘90s!
(+ partly not clear)
National
Provincial
Regional
Local
Administrative levels/scale
Activity types
Problem => Views and heritage maps : provided needed (1)
Policy general detailed management education,plan plan & tourism
maintenance
Heritage map
Heritage map
needed heritageinformation
Other needs views people activities contexts
By – professionals - authorities
‘Represen-tation’
Landscape/heritage activities use(Future)
Landscape/heritage
Heritageevaluation
Cultural history research
Mapping => a processes-in-context with actors and impacts(1)
Text, Visualization, Publication
Topographic map
GIS
Mapping as communication-in-context
(1) Uses-in-context(s)(2) ‘Inscribing the landscape’
(Future)Landscape/heritage
Mapping => a processe-in-context with actors and impacts(2)
‘ignorant’ ‘good’
Is all this ‘an issue’? => expertise, awareness, discussion, …
Thank you!
j.s.visser@planet.nl
Upon clicking: 10 objects
Unnamed built heritage 1800-1945
Area: Netherlands
Unnamed built heritage 1800-1945
Area: Regional description
Area: Fens
Mid-Netherlands fens area
Peat/fens reclamation
Lakes from peat digging
Unspecified border
Peat reclamation parcellation
Example: “Knowledge Infrastructure Cult. Heritage”, National system, > 2010