Mosaic Mapping

As part of the program, all students were charged with designing large-scale projects to carry out during our travels. In an attempt to explore different ways of representing maps to reflect personal experience in specific locations, I will be creating maps of each city which are composed of pictures from those cities. My hopes are that these collection of images will tell more about the city, and more specifically, about the experiences of our trip while in those cities, than a normal map can. Admittidly, these maps also lose functionality as practical maps at the same time, without any legible street names, clear lines of streets, or landmarks. The maps are constructed using a mosaic-producing program, a map of the given city created from several other maps in an attempt to produce a mosaic-friendly source image, and thousands of pictures taken by myself and other students on the trip. Given the lack of printing facilities while on our trip, I'm just using computer monitors as the means of presentation. However, when I get back to Carleton, I would like to print them out, create a map-esque cover for the back, and fold them into little pocket maps as their final means of presentation. The following image is the first finished map, with three more following within the next few weeks. The map displays lower Manhattan and northern and middle areas of Brooklyn, New York. For ease of loading, the image below is rather low quality, although a much, much larger version of the image can be found here.

You can check my individual blog for more details on the progression of this project. -August Brown