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ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING

New Cartographies of Networks and Territories

Janet Abrams

Contributions by Peter Hall

The new role of maps in the information age

  • Design Distinction in Graphics Award – I.D. Magazine

320 Pages, 11 x 9 in

  • Paperback
  • 9780972969628
  • Published: December 15, 2005
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ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING

New Cartographies of Networks and Territories

Janet Abrams

Contributions by Peter Hall

ISBN: 9780972969628

Publication date: December 15th, 2005

320 Pages

8 x 10

ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING charts the ascendancy of mapping as a powerful interdisciplinary strategy, one that links people and places, data and organizations, and physical and virtual environments. 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: social networks are mapped with dynamic digital interfaces; buildings are mapped with lasers; cities and regions are mapped by satellite.

Illustrated with nearly 300 images, from archival woodcuts to Web-based maps and GPS drawings, ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING explores how cartographic techniques are being adapted to map the emerging landscapes of electronic communication. It showcases cutting-edge projects in graphic and industrial design, art, architecture, and technology by an international roster of writers, artists, and designers at the forefront of locative media practice.

ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING
proposes—by visual example and written analysis—that mapping is a fundamental design process that increasingly shapes the physical and conceptual dimensions of contemporary society.

Deborah Littlejohn (designer) is design fellow at the University of Minnesota Design Institute.

Distributed for the University of Minnesota Design Institute by the University of Minnesota Press.