Downloads
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47982/spool.2022.3.07Keywords:
Urban transformation, Narratives, Mediatization, Murals, Supergraphics, Comics, Cartography, Temporary art, Placemaking, Building sitesAbstract
Drawings play various roles in (and in-between) the processes of design, construction and the continuous use and appropriation of space. This article explores large drawing elements positioned at building sites. It discusses how decision makers, developers, planners and design professionals actively use such representational means to create site and project narratives for the site preparation and construction phase. Two projects and sites are presented here in order to illustrate and explore the role of large on- site supergraphics during site transformation. The main aim is to explore how they configure specific conceptions of time. The first is Ōtautahi: An Origin Story, a large comic strip mounted on the hoardings of the building site for a new convention centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, as part of the city’s post- earthquake rebuild. The second case is a ground mural in the Danish town of Køge featuring a map in a section of a temporary urban space called The Space of Time that is part of the town’s harbour transformation. The analysis engages with theoretical perspectives on visual culture, drawing and space – in particular urban comics, cartography, mapping, site thinking and transformation. It sheds light on an emerging phenomenon in contemporary urban culture – one characterized by hybrid authorships, ambiguous aesthetics and time-space constellations.
How to Cite
Published
Issue
Section
Plaudit
References
Adams, S. (2018) The Field Guide to Supergraphics: Graphics in the Urban Environment. Thames & Hudson
Anderson, V. (2019, 5 October). ‘Christchurch – from blank canvas of ruins to street art capital. Stuff’. https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertain-
ment/116290639/christchurch--from-blank-canvas-of-ruins-to-street-art-capital
Beauregard, R.A. (2020). ‘From Place to Site: Negotiating Narrative Complexity’ in: Kahn, A. & Burns, C. J. (eds.). Site Matters: Strategies for Uncertainty Through Planning and Design. Taylor & Francis group, 226-238
Bennett, B., Dann, J., Johnson, E. & Reynolds, R. (eds.). (2014). Once in a lifetime: city-building after disaster in Christchurch. Freerange Press
Braae, E. (2015). Beauty Redeemed – Recycling post-industrial landscapes. Risskov/Basel: Ikaros Press & Birkhäuser
Christmann, g., Singh, A., Stollmann, J., & Bernhardt, C. (2020). ‘Visual Communication in Urban Design and Planning: The Impact of Mediatization(s) on the Construction of Urban Future. Urban Planning, 5(2), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v5i2.3279
Corner, James (1999). ‘The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention’ in: Dennis Cosgrove (ed.) Mappings. London.
Davies, D. (2019). Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351054492
Dooren, N. van (2017). Drawing Time. The Representation of Growth, Change and Dynamics in Dutch Landscape Architectural Practice after 1985. PhD thesis (University of Amsterdam, 2017).
Dooren, N. van & Nielsen, A. B. (2019). ‘The representation of time: addressing a theoretical flaw in landscape architecture’. Landscape
Research, 44(8), 997–1013.
Dittmer, J. (2014a). Comic book geographies. Franz Steiner Verlag.
Dittmer, J.(2014b). ‘Narrating urban assemblages—Chris Ware and Building Stories’. Social & Cultural Geography, 15(5), 477–503. https://doi. org/10.1080/14649365.2014.908235
Dittmer, J. & Latham, A. (2015). ‘The rut and the gutter: space and time in graphic narrative’. Cultural Geographies, 22(3), 427–444.
Emmons, P. (2011): ‘Drawing sites: Site drawings’ in: Ewing, Suzanne (ed.): Architecture and Field/work. London /New York: Routledge, 2011, 119-128
Emmons, P. (2019). Drawing Imagining Building: Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices (1st ed.). Routledge.
Evans, R. (1997). Translations from drawing to building and other essays. Architectural Association.
Forty, Adrian: Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000
Fraser, B. (2019). Visible Cities, Global Comics: Urban Images and Spatial Form. University Press of Mississippi.
Blanca Juanes Juanes. (2018). ‘Supergraphics. Sea Ranch and the proto-Pop authenticity’. EGA : revista de expresión gráfica arquitectónica, 23(33), 190–201.
Køge Kyst (2011) ‘Livet før Byen –Byen før livet: Udviklingsplan for Køge Kyst’
Lynch, K. (1972). What Time is this Place? Cambridge: The MIT Press.
McClelland Morris, S. (12 March 2020). ‘I broke all the rules’. The Graphical Tree https://www.thegraphicaltree.com/journal/i-broke-all-the-rules/
McCloud. (1994). Understanding comics : the invisible art. Harper Perennial.
Mikhailov, S., Khafizov, R., Mikhailova, A., Nadyrshine, N., & Nadyrshine, L. (2020). ‘Supergraphics as a project and artistic method in design of a modern city’. IOP Conference Series. Materials Science and Engineering, 890(1)
Ōtākaro Limited. Christchurch Convention Centre - Ōtautahi An Origin Story - December 2017. Accessed 20 January, 2022, from https://vimeo.com/246210798
Peterle, g. (2017). ‘Comic book cartographies: a cartocentred reading of City of glass, the graphic novel’. Cultural Geographies, 24(1), 43–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474016643972
Peterle, g. (2021). Comics as a research practice : drawing narrative geographies beyond the frame. Routledge, Taylor & Francis group.
Pinto, J. A. (1976). ‘Origins and Development of the Ichnographic City Plan’. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 35(1), 35–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/988969
Realdania By (2013). Midlertidige aktiviteter i byudvikling, https://issuu.com/realdaniaby/docs/20130904_midlertidige_aktiviteter_i/46
RE:EDIT Publishing. Ōtautahi: An Origin Story. Accessed 10 January, 2022, https://web.archive.org/web/20181218013943/https://anorigin- story.co.nz/
Royal geographical Society (with IBg) Schools (Host). ‘What is the relationship between comic books and geopolitics?’ Professor Jason Dittmer [Audio podcast episode] https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/what-is-the-relationship-between-comic-books-and-g/
Stylianou, g. (2015, May 1). ‘Convention centre criticism mounts’. RNZ. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regional/272506/convention-cen- tre-criticism-mounts
Venezia, T. (2010) ‘Archives, Alan Moore and the historiographic novel’, International Journal of Comic Art 12: 183–199.
Woods, R. ‘Painting the Town: Reflections on Christchurch’s Relationship with Urban Art...’ Pechakucha June 8, 2018. https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/painting-the-town-reflections-on-christchurchs-relationship-with-urban-art-dot-dot-dot
