RemembeRing

Home?

What do we expose when we ask people

to draw the outline of the country they

live in and also ask them to mark the

location of 3 cities?

Remembering

Home?

What do we expose when we ask people to draw

the outline of the country they live in and also ask

them to mark the location of 3 cities: London,

birmingham & (the city in which the exercise is

being delivered) Portsmouth?

it is a shape that they have seen numerous times

through cultural, political, historical and

geographical information. How well would they be

able to visualise the outline?

With a sense of humour as an underlying theme a

selection of these can be viewed evidencing

that some: incorporate map conventions, others that

local knowledge is disproportionate,

a large proportion of the map is made up, some do

not fit on the page and then there are those that give

good spatial information and you may get

from A to b with them.

Five categories of hand-drawn maps were identified

after this short project had been

completed by second year illustration students:

1 Disproportioned

2 non-Aligned

3 Acurate

4 imaginative

5 narrative

1 Disproportioned

2 non-Aligned

3 Acurate

4 imaginative

5 narrative

This is one of thirteen creative projects

which form the practical element of my

practise-based Ph.D., titled The mystery of

mapness: The Void between mind And map,

submitted in February 2007 at the

University of Portsmouth.

To view these projects please go to:

www.mapassion.com