New Geographies #4 Scales of the Earth - Harvard Design School

Living Room Geography - article by Theo Deutinger

Theo Deutinger contributed to the magazine New Geographies #4 Scales of the Earth - Harvard Design School by the Harvard Design School with the article Living Room Geography. Editor-in-Chief EL HADI JAZAIR.


Living Room Geography - The Art of Imitation

This article describes how earth imitation, the fundament of world maps, was displaced by a new earth imitation project, the Internet.

Gerardus Mercator, the famous cartographer who introduced the word ‘atlas’ for a compilation of maps, describes his work as an ‘imitator’ of the earth. His contemporary Abraham Ortelius, the publisher of world’s first map compilation in book form, called his work a “Theater of the World” (“Theatrum Orbis Terrarum”) . World maps, as their origins reveal, are explicit simulations of not just geogrphical formations but also of reality.

New Geographies #4 Scales of the Earth - Harvard Design School

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