On 3rd and 4th June, CityMurmur project (www.citymurmur.org) landed in Paris to take part to HyperUrbain.2, a conference about Information Technologies and Communication in urban areas, which was at its second edition this year. Theme of the symposium was “la ville cartographiée” (the city map), and to give our contribute to the discussion, we were [...]

This morning flipping trough the last issue of the Economist, I ran into an interesting article titled “Mapping a Better World“. Since we have been working together with the LA based NGO Iridescent Learning in the “Urban Schools Needs Project”, I’ve became quiet familiar with the shape of Los Angeles. When, flipping the last page [...]

A very interesting set of conferences (about to end but we’re still in time) about cartography. The occasion is the next issue of the Atlas of Le Monde Diplomatique. http://www.cartografareilpresente.org http://www.cartografareilpresente.org/spip.php?page=cartes&lang=it http://www.france-bologna.it http://www.dds.unibo.it SIMPOSIO “GEOPOLITICA E MIGRAZIONI” Complesso di San Giovanni in Monte, Aula Prodi, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2, Bologna. Sabato 30 maggio, [...]

My PhD Thesis – Work in progress, year 1/3. Throughout the centuries cities have been constantly changing, together with their image, their imageability. Therefore their graphic representations must be constantly ‘adapted’ to those changes too. Classic cartography deals with the topographic aspects of the cities, without explaining what happens inside them, describing their elements, whereas [...]

The French School of Biblical and Archaeological Studies of Jerusalem is a strange place. It’s very close to Damascus Gate, the main crowdy access to the old city of Jerusalem, however time seems to be stuck in the mists of time… It’s a huge monastery, founded in 1890, where you can meet incredible people, doing [...]

From NewYork Times Interactive comes this simple visualization of the “common mood” during last SuperBowl. As the Steelers and Cardinals battled on the field, Twitter users across the nation pecked out a steady stream of “tweets.” The map shows the location and frequency of commonly used words in Super Bowl related messages.

http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/essays/andrews.htm

Often love affairs are instable, fleeting and unpredictable. It seems emotions change in a chaotic way. On this assumptions some mathematicians recently modeled a love relationship in terms of dynamic system. One of the case study of this kind of works is Jules et Jim, the autobiographical novel of Henri Pierre Roché and his cinematographic [...]

Adobe just rolled out a new feature over at Kuler. Pulse is a tool to visualize the colors used on Kuler related to country, season and tag. The color set can be scale in regard on granularity as well as the lighness of the colors.

A close-up of the Earth Globe by Coronelli in which narration has a strong relevance. Extracts from Italo Calvino’s “Collection of sand”, 1980 The simplest form of a map isn’t the one we consider the most natural today, that is the map which represents the surface of the Earth as seen by an extra-terrestrial eye. [...]