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ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING explores the importance of maps as aids to navigation, understanding, and cultural representation. Traditionally written by history's victors, maps are gaining new currency in our information-saturated age as a means of making arguments and processes visible. Mapping technologies today are as diverse as the agendas driving them: the human body is mapped with 3-D software, buildings are mapped with lasers, and cities are mapped by satellite. ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING proposes-by visual example and written analysis-that mapmaking is a fundamental design process, one that shapes the physical and conceptual dimensions of contemporary multicultural society. ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING is the second installment in an international visual/verbal collaboration focusing on the design implications of new technologies. It follows the award-winning book IF/THEN: PLAY, published in 1999, and is designed by Amsterdam studio Mevis + van Deursen.
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15 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Eye-opening, or is that i-opening?
15 Aug 2006
Format:Paperback
What a fun book!
Plenty of new views of our connected world plus interviews with the authors/analysts/artists (yes, they are all three) who created the extreme maps.
You would think with the advent of cyberspace that maps would recede to the background and go the way of the floppy disk. No. Mapping is transformed and redefined. Interesting discussion of mapping vs. maps.
This should be a coffee table book in every building where intelligent people congregate.
Plenty of new views of our connected world plus interviews with the authors/analysts/artists (yes, they are all three) who created the extreme maps.
You would think with the advent of cyberspace that maps would recede to the background and go the way of the floppy disk. No. Mapping is transformed and redefined. Interesting discussion of mapping vs. maps.
This should be a coffee table book in every building where intelligent people congregate.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
superbly produced book
23 Jun 2009
Format:Paperback
Studying and analyzing visual images like the beautifully produced ones in this book teach scaling, the "real" Greenwich meridian, how maps change with different datum among other things.
The superb quality of the illustrations make this book unique and valuable for introducing students to analytic visual understanding
The superb quality of the illustrations make this book unique and valuable for introducing students to analytic visual understanding
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Excellent masterpiece!
22 Feb 2010
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How is it that someone can rate this book with only one star? This is the best book on the subject mapping I have seen so far. The content is highly conceptual and very profound. It gives you a lot of beautiful images and well-written essays which illustrate the concepts presented very well. A true masterpiece that is wonderfully designed and produced. This is so much better compared to all those books which give you only collections of maps.
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