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01–11–2017 — 22–11–2017
The Creative Geographies drawing series was presented at the conference and exhibition Drawing Millions of Plans, hosted by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen. The series explores the potential for syntactical translation between two distinct modes of spatial representation. The first is cinematic montage—specifically, the technique of creative geography, in which discontinuous spaces are edited to appear continuous. The second is the conventional plan representation of cities found in political, administrative, and historical documents, such as contemporary zoning maps and ancient geological survey plans.
Using collage as a method, the Creative Geographies drawings construct continuous urban spaces from fragmented and distorted depictions of geographically and chronologically disparate locations, including New York, Rome, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miletus, and Istanbul. These compositions feel both familiar and foreign, repurposing the formal syntax of bureaucratic and historical plans to envision new, imaginary pathways through urban space.