At the intersection of emotions and cartography – emotional cartographies

Triggered by “unseen”, “invisible”, or “silent” emotionalscapes, the representation of “immateriality” as material, the paper looks at theories, practices and meanings, the correlation between “emotional” and “spatial”. How landscape-rooted affective elements can be (non) spatially represented? What are contribution and limitations of “Emotional Mapping” as a tool? How can we use experimental mapping techniques to map-out subjective “emotions” to the tangible, and how or to what extent qualitative data can be converted into a “standardized” spatial language? The paper argues for a mixed-methods approach, relying on sensory and participatory ethnographic techniques, bringing together Non-Quantitative GIS and the “conventional” one.

Emotional cartographies. Emotional geographies. Affective spatial humanities. Experimental mapping. Qualitative GIS.