EAN: 9780262046695

TERRA FORMA - FREDERIQUE AIT-TOUATI ALEXANDRA A...

Charting the exploration of an unknown world-our own-with a new cartography of living things
rather than space available for conquest or colonization. This book charts the exploration of
an unknown world: our own. Just as Renaissance travelers set out to map the terra incognito of
the New World  the mapmakers of Terra Forma have set out to rediscover the world that we think
we know. They do this with a new kind of cartography that maps living things rather than space
emptied of life and available to be conquered or colonized. The maps in Terra Forma lead us
inward  not off into the distance  moving from the horizon line of conventional cartography to
the thickness of the ground  from the global to the local. Each map in Terra Forma is based on
a specific territory or territories  and each tool  or model  creates a new focal point through
which the territory is redrawn. The maps are living maps  always under construction  spaces
where stories and situations unfold. They may map the Earth's underside rather than its surface
suggest turning the layers of the Earth inside out  link the biological physiology of living
inhabitants and the physiology of the land  or trace a journey oriented not by the Euclidean
space of GPS but by points of life. These speculative visualizations can constitute the
foundation for a new kind of atlas.

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