num_pages: 240
description: A look at our exterior and interior worlds through intriguing and imaginative maps from over 130 contributors in the fields of art science film and more Maps have always been at the heart of human knowledge. Whether they chart a newly discovered land or lay out a complicated process maps serve to improve our understanding of what surrounds us. Maps make the complex simple and reveal the complexity behind the apparently simple. Mapping It Out invites artists architects writers and designers geographers mathematicians computer pioneers scientists and others from a host of fields to create a personal map of their own in whatever form and showing whatever terrain they choose whether real-world or imaginary.Over 130 contributors ideas are represented including Yoko Ono Louise Bourgeois Damien Hirst David Adjaye Ed Ruscha Alexander Kluge and many more. Some contributors have translated scientific data into simplified visual language while others have condensed vast social political or natural forms into concise diagrams. There are reworked existing maps alternate views of reality charted imaginary flights of fancy and the occasional rejection of a traditional map altogether. 140 illustrations 120 in color
language: English
title: Mapping It Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies
publisher: Thames & Hudson