Project Cartography

I have referred before to the split nature of my project. This has now in my mind resolved itself into two distinct threads to be pursued simultaneously. The first thread will examine ways to record students work in a manner that will allow them to refer back to ideas and interactions in retrospect. The second thread will look at promoting wider interactions between students. The junction between these two threads holds a great deal of crossover, and will doubtless be plastic in nature, with outputs from the first thread modifying to feed the second and visa versa.

My first proposal belongs to the first group, and aims to create a system cataloging students work and interactions within tutorials. Many students are already familiar with the idea of site mapping, and of overlaying historical maps, diagrams and other mapped data-sets in order to gain insight into the context of a project. Project Cartography applies the same thinking to a students work in an ongoing project, creating aerial photographs of students work in progress, which can then be browsed, overlain and worked over in a similar fashion to resources from Google maps etc.