Mapping the imagination links

  • Memory Maps - Victoria and Albert Museum
    Memory Maps is about people and their relationship with place. It is about objects that are associated with particular areas as well as prints and paintings of named locations. The Memory Maps website is a collaboration between Marina Warner, Professor of Creative Writing and her department at the University of Essex and the V&A.
  • Strange Maps | Big Think
    See all the area codes mentioned in the song by rap artist Ludacris, plotted on a map of the United States. The song brags about the area codes where he knows women, whom he refers to as ‘hoes.’ There are some interesting conclusions to the locations of this rapper’s preferred female companionship
  • Parish Maps
    Common Ground is internationally recognised for playing a unique role in the arts and environmental fields focussing upon the positive investment people can make in their own localities. Parish Maps, one the projects that seek  to fulfill this aim, offers a new way of looking at a place, and shows a glimpse of the vibrant life behind the obvious.
  • Creative Mapping
    Creative Mapping: a blog dedicated to the creative use of maps in art or how to map information creatively. This is a 3-year education initiative supported by Bloomberg looking at the potential of map-making in relation to identity and personal spaces.