Making a map

WEEK8- DAY 2

1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY

Raglan Road - Sinnead O'Connor

2. PLACES TO KNOW

Ireland - a brief history of Ireland

Anthony Bourdain in Ireland

Connemara sculpture - the Labyrinth

3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER

Richard Long

4. QUESTION OF THE DAY

5. INSPIRATION

What's a map?
A petroglyph?
Map symbols?

World maps...
The blog of maps...

Bucky Fuller Dymaxion map 
Thematic maps
Map creation tools

Sara Princivalle shared on the platform yesterday a wonderful book about maps: Where You Are: A Collection of Maps That Will Leave You Feeling Completely Lost.


“I seek balance between the patterns of nature and formalism of abstract ideas like lines and circles...Walking, leaving footprints, fingerprints, it all has to
do with my body...Types of energy, the force of gravity...sharing the nature of these natural forces...” Richard Long

“I was part of the generation that did things because they seemed like a good
idea at the time, which they were.” (Richard Long)

Richard Long - A line made by walking

Land Art - Jeanne-Claude and Christo’s work. 

The surrounded islands, 1983

Covering Christo - site

“All my projects are some kind of flirt with nature and really, no one knows how to do Surrounded Islands, I tell my crew to improvise and use their creative abilities to solve problems; it is part of the piece.” -  Christo.


6. Homework no. 51 - We're halfway Design101!

You will first search for references of maps related to your city. While doing this, concentrate your attention on one particular place. What’s your favourite map you found? Why? Share it with us, we would love to see it!

Ready to make your own? Go for a walk in your city, marking / indicating the places which are most meaningful to you (in the way you consider most appropriate).

But then, the true heart of this exercise has to do with your map’s legend (the relationship between the symbols you will use and their meanings). Which symbols will your map have? Why don’t you invent your own set of symbols?
Once you have found a way to transform a part of your city into some kind of informational visual representation, share a picture of it with us!

7. Extras

Map of Porto
Mapping Sterotypes - Alpha design
40 different maps that they don't show you at schools
On Looking - Eleven walks with eyes experts - book (suggestion by Thomas Pitre)