Maps make political changes, can I use map to do this?
Looking at Hegemony: Dominant Ideology
Object of struggle always changing, normalized because most common view
Our world map has distinctive shape & forms - Accepted view
William Harvey - Britannia - Builds ideas of Boadicea (Roman)
History of country read through figure of woman
The Great Exhibition 1851 - Ideologies, Monarchism, Relation to Germany (German Sea), History of ancient Greece - Athena Greek Helmet.
Book: Wonder Atlas 1954?
Idea os Hope after war
The map shrinks world - accessible places
Atlas greek - God who holds up the world
London in the middle - Mapping air mile difference
Transport & Interconnection- Rail/Sea - Global travel is important
Empires are still coloured - Showing dominance in world.
Future Magazine: Rex Harrison - America
Map used as a government tool
Japan & America at war - Maps tries to change possible view
R.E Harrison, Fortune - 1944
Soviet Union 1929
Map caused the famine in soviet union
Shows it has a influence on decisions made.
Loas: Communist area in black
Shows how maps are physically used
More engaging- idea of you making understandable
Andy Warhol 1986: Missile locations - Nuclear
Not correct info - American artist wouldn’t know where Russian Missiles are!
FICTION MAP - Idea of fear, Idea that missiles could be revealed. The language used is even the same- Secret lang,
Its about inaccuracy
Surrealist map 1929 - Political communist ideas & thinking / Russia getting rid of America
(Artist way of looking at world)
Fatilstrom 1972 - About the population in world - Shows what happens to people by making rivers smaller
GLOBALISATION (Changing world)
Neville Broody - Death of Typo 1986
Diff symbols in pic
Because the world is international - the alphabet is unnecessary.
We all look at the world through icon shapes instead of a alphabet that is not a global language
Icons may be more universal
Mac Icons - Navigation on a laptop
How do children look at the world? Through images
Jonny Phonics?
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/Reading_Wars.html
Idea of map being universal, no words. It about understanding diff visual languages
Conceptual maps - metal (mental) mapping etc... world mapping etc..concept map
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