Digital Modeling Systems: Critical Cartographies to Make Spatial Power Legible (Copenhagen, Denmark)

M.Arch Travel Award 2025
Ishanesu Tendayi
Layered Cartographies

Layered Cartographies

Digital Modeling Systems: Critical Cartographies to Make Spatial Power Legible

Copenhagen, Denmark

This research traces fieldwork in Denmark and conversations with DLR Group, GXN/3XN, Henning Larsen, Exigo, BLOXHUB, and Copenhagen Solutions Lab, where practitioner interviews grounded technological claims in real workflows and governance constraints. This insight is translated into layered analog-to-digital maps (experiential, epistolary, sensory, conversational) that render data as legible narratives and decision trails. At stake is a critical use of digital modeling systems as civic instruments; interfaces that expose intention, evidence, and consequence so spatial power can be read, challenged, and re-authored.


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