ABSTRACT

This paper is a response to the pervasive spread of both cartographic materials related to the COVID-19 pandemic and critical commentaries about such materials. Written by four Italian map-scholars with different theoretical backgrounds but similar socio-cultural and emotional concerns, this paper emerged spontaneously, following the impulse to grasp the rapid movement of coronavirus cartographies, particularly online. Through conversations carried out during the lockdown, the authors collaboratively observed how both scientific and governmental, as well as existential and affective features of the pandemic have been informed by cartographic imaginings. This plurality of cartographic visuals and mapping practices, which appeared soon after the coronavirus outbreak, requires exponential research angles. Approaching the pandemic through and in the proximity of maps, mapping practices, map-like objects and creative cartographies, this paper aims to foreground the speculative, empirical and fast-moving expressions of the pandemic’s cartographic imagery.

摘要

本文是对与COVID-19大流行有关的两种制图材料的普遍传播以及对此类材料的批评评论的回应。由四位具有不同理论背景但具有相似社会文化和情感问题的意大利地图学者撰写，在冲动掌握冠状病毒制图法特别是在线快速发展的冲动之后，本文自发出现。通过在封锁期间进行的对话，作者共同观察了制图想象如何为大流行的科学和政府特征以及存在和情感特征提供了信息。在冠状病毒爆发后不久出现的多种制图视觉和制图方法，需要指数研究的角度。