La cartografia creativa come rappresentazione e narrazione della memoria e dei cambiamenti del territorio e del paesaggio contemporaneo

The paper deals with that particular form of representation of the landscape and the territory called "creative cartography", a polysemic form of mapping reality that draws on many different disciplines: from traditional cartography to urban studies, from architecture to visual design, from sociology to performance arts. Practised both by amateurs and creative professionals, creative cartography encompasses a wide range and mixture of forms (analogue, digital and performance-based), all using the visual language of mapping to evoke unexpected, hidden, multiple and subjective aspects of place, to investigate the relationship between individuals, territory and landscape. Creative cartography, in its various articulations, combining advanced digital tools with freehand drawing, is able to relate the act of drawing and mapping to its role as an interpretive medium, as well as a powerful agent for developing and supporting storytelling, hypotheses and proactive designs related to the territory and the landscape itself.