NML Mapping Think Tank

Mapping and Temporality

Something I keep coming back to in my head…

Maps (and particularly their new media incarnations) are a uniquely powerful tool for visualizing relationships between past, present and future. While today’s media culture tends to emphasize the present, maps have the ability to accumulate media that articulate the transformation of place over time.

Maps are both retrospective and prospective.

These are abridged thoughts…More to come…