VizMaps: An Alternate Approach to Describing Where

Facilitator: Bruce Daniel
Company: Cartifact
Session #: 203
Session Title: VizMaps: An Alternate Approach to Describing Where

Date: Monday, January 28, 2008
Time: 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Room: Commonwealth

Description

No text, no numbers, no labels, no scale, no measuring, no surveying. How can a map use only visuals to describe precise location? A quick review of maps old and new reveals different approaches that rely only on form and display to communicate. We’ll each create quick maps to a favorite haunt. Hands on with your table-mates, we’ll pick starting points and destinations and work to describe those places in relation to each other using only non-glyphic visuals. Together we’ll explore the process and see how the maps we come in contact with everyday might be improved upon.

Session Materials

What can we discover in these images that inspires and informs our own maps?

Comments

Here's my session summary: http://visualthinkscape.blogspot.com/2008/02/vizmaps-alternate-approach-to.html

Drawings from this session from graphic facilitator, Brandy Agerbeck:

< This is my map the session's hands on activity

Bruce Daniel walked us through an exercise to draw a "glyph-less" map of a common route in our lives.

It was a great activity and I was thankful to Daniel for leading us through a guided imagery exercise first, before putting pen to paper. We were encouraged to remember the route and locations through all the senses.

This is my route from my home to the main branch of the Chicago Public Libraries - Harold Washington Public Library.

It begins at my apartment in the Edgewater neighborhood and taking the #147 Express bus. It starts out local down Sheridan, then zips down Lake Shore Drive, then local again down Michigan Avenue.

LSD first passes loads of park, green with tress, then in hits a point of blocks and blocks of buildings, mostly condos.

Near where I exit the bus, is Anish Kapoor's sculpture Cloudgate, the bean on the green on Millennium Park. The blue water is Lake Michigan. The orange box is the Loop. The owl represents of of the giant copper owls decorating the four corners of the library roof.

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