An unbelievable piece of work from Janet Abrams and Peter Hall, ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING - New Cartographies of Networks and Territories has just been published, and welcomes the design community to their (its) book party in New York City next Monday evening, May 1, at the Van Alen Institute. 6.30-8.30 pm.
Come chat with Janet, Peter and designer Deborah Littlejohn; Take in the panel discussion, "Aerial Views/Synoptic Visions" featuring Ben Aranda and Chris Lasch of Terraswarm, writer Andrea Codrington, artist and architect Laura Kurgan and interaction designer Brad Paley; Enjoy some refreshements; Buy the damn book and get it signed! (RSVP to design-at-umn.edu by April 28 with "E/W NY" in subject. Space is limited.)
Most info at http://www.elsewheremapping.com
Here's a taste from the book: Mapping has emerged in the information age as a means to make the complex accessible, the hidden visible, the unmappable mappable. As we struggle to steer through the torrent of data unleashed by the Internet, and to situate ourselves in a world in which commerce and community have been redefined in terms of networks, mapping has become a way of making sense of things.
And here's what Jonathan Lee says about the book: Else/Where deeply examines its subject matter while remaining interested in process and not just the serving of glossy end-product design to its audience. In this way Else/Where is a very much needed breath of fresh air in a market wrought with self-glorifying design monographs. To the patient reader it offers a dense collection of contemporary projects and essays that bring new insights to the way that humans study, live, define and move through the world.
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