Looking for “in-between” Places

Abstract

This article develops the concept of “in-between” places in relation to the study of language, perceptions and memorieswithin the broader mediation of cartography. We held an empirical qualitative studyin the city of Lisbon, Portugal, where a group of participants (1) performed a web map-survey to identifythe spatial dimensions of their sense of place, (2) hada joint discussion about therepresentations and memories associated with their chosen places, and, finally, (3) took a go-along walk to obtain a deeper definition and characterization of them. Results suggest that analog and digital maps generate different virtual images of space, while the navigational use ofdigital maps in particular generates multiple representations of the territory. Themediation of different narrations and the description of encounters within the Person-Place-Process triad helped us to establish the importance of in-between places for a complete conceptualization of place.