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Perception Mapping
A current project by artist and designer Christian Nold explores non-visual and non-aural perceptions of space and landscape. The Sensory Deprivation Map reflects the experiences of pairs of participants—one of ...
Participatory Urbanism
Interested in the ways in which mobile technology influences social development and the urban landscape, research boutique Urban Atmospheres has built an ongoing project on the belief that cell phones and other ...
Imaging Beijing
John Craig Freeman's Imaging Beijing, part of the 2008 Mixed Realities exhibition at Turbulence.org, uses remote sensing technology and place-based narratives to examine the effects of electronic and cultural ...
Fallen Fruit
Blending the local food movement, cartographic art, and the idea of the public commons, Fallen Fruit invites participants to map the locations of fruit trees, creating an open project exploring conservation, ...
Text Mapping
For the past decade, artist Peter Cho has explored the boundaries between text and images and the visualization of data. The collection of his work at TYPOTOPO focuses on the relationship between technology, data, ...
The New Ghost Map
In the 1850s, efforts to control a severe cholera outbreak in London led to the birth of modern medical geography. A careful examination of the effects of the disease, which included tracing its ...
Wikipedia Walkabout
Two websites give Wikipedia users a more immediate, spatial connection to data. Placeopedia allows visitors to connect articles to locales, creating searchable maps linked to the original texts. To create ...
Two Ways of Seeing Noise
Two sets of research and art projects catalog the effects of noise pollution in urban areas and public green spaces. An ongoing program of the European Commission relies on extensive research and visual ...
StoryMapping
The Center for Digital Storytelling created the StoryMapping project to provide a forum for the exploration of the connection between narrative and place as well as links to a set of tools ...
Sonic Attack
Artist Iain Mott coordinates installation pieces that use mixed media--especially sound--to explore the connection between participant-audience members and the environment. Past projects, recorded on the Reverberant site, have included Summoned Voices, a work that used ...
Portland’s Little Ponies
Despite generations of construction and development, hitching posts and horse rings remain scattered around Portland, Oregon. To call attention to these odd relics, artist Scott Wayne Indiana began tying plastic ...
Networked News
Buzztracker traces the connections between major cities and current events by visualizing news coverage as a series of interconnected circles, allowing users to see the ripple effect of important stories. The ...
Documenting Abuse
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has used satellite images to document human rights abuses in Burma--renamed Myanmar by military dictators after the bloody suppression of reform protests ...
Blogging the Wasteland
Worst Places in the World combines Google Earth images with well-researched, insightful commentary on some of the globe's most unpleasant issues. The site documents environmental racism, conflict, and the spread of invasive ...
Mapping Fatalities
Iraq War Coalition Fatalities plots the location and dates of coalition deaths from March 2003 through late winter 2007. To plot the fatalities temporally as well as spatially, a Flash animation follows the ...