JUXTAPOSITION OF CITY IDENTITIES Mapping Tilburg Through Psychogeographical Perspective of International Students by Meric Cukurova

The city is not simply a physical space but also a cultural and social space that is continually being constructed and reconstructed by its inhabitants. Unlike a fixed city image, mapping practice represents a temporary city that is open to change from an individual’ perspective. In that sense, I try to explore new ways of seeing the city through the social imaginaries of people from different cultures by co-creating with international student. As a tactical field, public space is an imaginary space that resists one dominant image of the city where participants produce meaning continually through observing and following their emotions in the urban environment. Aiming to understand how international students create meaning and how the city of Tilburg is constructed through multiple ways of mapping in three areas -Dwaalgebied, Winkelgebied, and Veemarktkwartier-, I focus on the performative aspects of mapping and challenge traditional mapping practices through psychogeographical and experimental video mapping.

It was a fun adventure full of nature, small but effective, sun, and the typical breezy Tilburg weather! I just followed where my mind took me, mainly following trees and silence.

Nisan

instagram documentation: Tilburg drift by Nisan

instagram documentation: Brussel drift

instagram documentation: Gent drift

instagram documentation: Tilburg drift

proximity

in the CITY OF

Lynch (1960) proposes as five elements of the mental maps. These five elements include:
(1) ‘paths’—defined as routes that we choose to move about;
(2) ‘edges’—defined as boundaries and discontinuities in the urban environment;
(3) ‘districts’—defined as characteristics of characterisation of urban areas; (4) ‘nodes’—defined as particular points in the urban environments where we can position ourselves; and
(5) ‘landmarks’—defined as identifiable elements or points we use for orientation and recognition of places.

70, 2.4.1 Imageability and Urban Identity: A Visual Tool

RESEARCH PROCESS IN TILBURG

shopping mall is a landmark

Lynch (1960) proposes as five elements of the mental maps. These five elements include:
(1) ‘paths’—defined as routes that we choose to move about;
(2) ‘edges’—defined as boundaries and discontinuities in the urban environment;
(3) ‘districts’—defined as characteristics of charactertisation of urban areas; (4) ‘nodes’—defined as particular points in the urban environments where we can position ourselves; and
(5) ‘landmarks’—defined as identifiable elements or points we use for orientation and recognition of places.

70, 2.4.1 Imageability and Urban Identity: A Visual Tool