Soft Networks and Emergent Topographies

Abstract

Research focuses on mapping of liminal space along the Buffer Zone of Nicosia and its emerging urban identity that is revealed through documentation of inhabitation patterns over time. The process of seeing activities from the ground, through mapping and collage, expose the complex and often-invisible layers of information that exist. These processes of re-reading extend and enrich our interaction with the specific conditions of the site; the slow and seemingly insignificant and ‘unseen’ organic evolution of the site is acknowledged as a strong part of its identity. Based on premise that transformation of space provokes public action, the investigation is concerned with the search for emerging and shifting topographies. Research establishes mechanisms for discovery spaces of transformation these exist at the level of landscape, and very particular conditions of forgotten edges and points of contact with the urban environment.