Representing places by their absence: another design strategy to know the spirit of places

Abstract

This Design Strategy belongs to an ongoing research entitled Maps ‘Tailor Made’ to the Body of Places: Design Strategies Against the Indifference of Representation. In this research we defend that each place has its own representation, and the drawing is the privileged tool for the designer to represent it. As an example, this design strategy — representation by absence —, used in the Dom Luiz I Bridge map in the city of Porto.