If Mapping_The Invisible had a musical score, it would sound something like Phillip Glass’ Glassworks. Something that starts off in a familiar context but turns to the unexpected. Experimental and digestible. On second thought, perhaps Koyaanisqatsi (film score by Glass) is the more appropriate choice. I would argue that it is a cinematographic map. If you now have an abundant source of free-time and don’t know what to do with it, please watch it at your leisure:
Mind altering, no chemicals necessary.
That is, to me at least. I’d like to believe everyone has their own sonic interpretation of the course. What did it sound like to you? Anyone?
Check out this promotional video for Google Earth VR, the next mapping tool from Google’s cartographic tool-kit that I took interest in exploring for today’s final presentation. This video does a great job to act as springboard in generating discussion as well as thought about VR and technology in general toward mapping today and for the future. Worth checking out!
In complement to Celia’s most recent post, this article explains well how over-representation of men in city street name constitute a privilege for the dominating gender: “I can’t imagine how I might have conceived of myself and my possibilities if, in my formative years, I had moved through a city where most things were named after women and many or most of the monuments were of powerful, successful, honored women.”
But there’s a glaring problem with how streets get named: few memorialize women. A new interactive map from Mapbox developer Aruna Sankaranarayanan and her colleagues shows just how scarce female streets are in major cities around the world.
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