Mapping Workshop

A 2-day workshop titled Maps, Map Reading & Map Making was conducted by Aziz Rajani (Architecture Autonomous, Panjim) for the students of B.Arch Semester II at Mysore School of Architecture, Mysore  (Feb 16-17, 2018). The workshop was conducted as part of the course Basic Design & Art Appreciation along with the respective course faculty. The students were introduced to the fundamentals of mapping through structured input sessions and hands-on exercises. This included them mapping specific user groups from college and then using a system of overlapping individual & group movement maps to identify principal pathways, landmarks, junctions &nodes on campus. The information derived was finally presented in the form of maps which employed a variety of techniques of representation & infographics.