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Else/Where: Mapping Janet Abrams and Peter Hall, editors |
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The new role of maps in the information age. 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. “A varied and eclectic picture of recent developments in information representation. This book allows the reader to dip in and chart his or her own course. It’s a fascinating document that updates our understanding of the new ways in which many people are plotting our world.” —Azure “Else/Where: Mapping contains a fascinating collection of new kinds of maps of new realities.” —Eye Magazine “You can get a little lost diving into Else/Where: Mapping, a thoughtful, far-ranging look at how mapping techniques are being used to visualize a lot more than landforms and cityscapes.” —St. Paul Pioneer Press “Lavishly illustrated and designed, coherent and practical.” —SciTech Book News “Calling all aficionados of ‘locative media practice’—the editors and contributors of Else/Where: Mapping have assembled dozens of noteworthy new media-mapping projects into one sprawling tome. With offerings as diverse as examinations of the globalization of football to the swimming patterns of pigeons, an infectious enthusiasm guides the way.” —Metropolis “Every piece here has something to say. The book is smartly laid out, with pages big enough to accomodate inset images and various column formats, and small enough to read comfortably. The design—bursting with flaps and interstices—conveys the promise of this re-energized discipline. Else/Where: Mapping, quite literally, takes on the world. It shouldn’t be read only by information design specialists. As anyone who’s ever turned a two-hour drive into an all day road trip can attest, we should all care about maps.” —Rain Taxi Review of Books Janet Abrams is director of the University of Minnesota Design Institute. She edited IF/THEN while working at the Netherlands Design Institute, Amsterdam. Peter Hall is senior editor at the University of Minnesota Design Institute and a contributing writer to Metropolis magazine. Distributed for the University of Minnesota Design Institute 200 pages | 16 halftones, 252 color photos | 7-13/16 x 9-13/16 | 2005 |
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$49.95 Paper