Entering a risky territory.
Digital navigation
Space in the age of digital navigation.
Relying on the fecund interface of three fields - studies in science, risk geography, and knowledge management - Prof. V. November (ESPRI - Study group of spaciality of risks) and Camacho-Hübner E. (LAC - Chôros Laboratory) suggest maps should be considered as dashboards of a calculation interface that allows one to pinpoint successive signposts while moving through the world, the famous multiverse of William James. This distinction, they argue, might, on the one hand, help geography to grasp the very idea of risks and, on the other, help to free geography from its fascination with the base map by allowing a whole set of new features, such as anticipation, participation, reflexivity, and feedback, now being included in the navigational definition of maps.