DOI: 10.4324/9781003327578-22 172 This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities, 2024, available online: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of- Cartographic-Humanities/Rossetto-LoPresti/p/book/9781032355931. MLA citation: Paez, Roger, Valtchanova, Manuela, Larroya, Ferran and Josep Perelló. “Maps as Design Tools: Space, Time, and Experience”. The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities. Eds. Tania Rossetto and Laura Lo Presti. Abingdon- on-Thames/New York: Routledge, 2024. pp. 172-181. DOI: 10.4324/9781003327578-22. MAPS AS DESIGN TOOLS Space, time and experience Roger Paez, Manuela Valtchanova, Ferran Larroya and Josep Perelló DOI: 10.4324/9781003327578-22 172 Operative mapping Maps and design have long been engaged in a fertile feedback loop of mutual affect, especially since the 1980s. Since Brian Harley famously identified the active role of maps and mapping in the generation of knowledge and, more importantly, in the generation of frameworks for knowledge (Harley, 2001), many important contributions from various fields of humanities and social sciences have delved into the multi-layered richness of maps and mapping (i.e. Christian Jacob, Denis Cosgrove, Denis Wood, Jeremy Crampton and John Pickles, just to name a few of the most relevant authors). The agency of mapping in design practices identified by Stan Allen (2000 [1989]) and James Corner (1999) spawned a renewed interest among architects and spatial designers in the operative potential of maps as design tools. More recently, contemporary approaches to design, including activist geopolitics (e.g. OMA/AMO, Bureau d’Études), planetary urbanism (e.g. Strelka, Territorial Agency), forensic architecture (e.g. Keller Easterling, Eyal Weizman), radical data-driven visualisations (e.g. Laura Kurgan, Vladan Joler) and critical practices in the fringes of art and design (e.g. Fraud, Liam Young), have widely expanded the use of maps to open new territories for design and to inform design decisions.