ABSTRACT

In this article, I review considerations and techniques for approaching cartographic design as visual storytelling. Stories, like maps, are a method for documenting and explaining, for meaningfully abstracting our experiences, for communicating and sharing, and for asserting a particular worldview. I argue that visual storytelling offers an entry point for hybridization in cartography, uniting technology with praxis, product with process, and design with critique while opening rich new avenues for transdisciplinary research and design. I begin by introducing influences on map-based visual storytelling and review ten recurring themes that make visual storytelling different from traditional perspectives on cartographic design. I then offer three of potentially many ways to articulate and organize the design space for map-based visual storytelling: foundational narrative elements and their adaptation to geographic phenomena and processes, visual storytelling genres delineating different story experiences, and visual storytelling tropes used to advance narratives across text, maps, images, and other multimedia. I conclude with a call for future research on visual storytelling in cartography, including visual design, visual ethics, and visual literacy.

摘要

在本文中，我回顾了将制图设计作为视觉讲故事的考虑因素和技术。故事与地图一样，是一种记录和解释、有意义地抽象我们的经验、交流和分享以及维护特定世界观的方法。我认为视觉叙事为混合提供了一个切入点在制图方面，将技术与实践、产品与过程、设计与批评相结合，同时为跨学科研究和设计开辟了丰富的新途径。我首先介绍了对基于地图的视觉叙事的影响，并回顾了十个反复出现的主题，这些主题使视觉叙事不同于传统的制图设计观点。然后，我提供了三种可能的多种方式来阐明和组织基于地图的视觉叙事设计空间：基础叙事元素及其对地理现象和过程的适应，描绘不同故事体验的视觉叙事类型，以及视觉叙事比喻用于推进跨文本、地图、图像和其他多媒体的叙述。最后，我呼吁未来对制图学中的视觉叙事进行研究，包括视觉设计、视觉伦理和视觉素养。