Making sense of maps

Name: Making sense of maps
Uploaded: 2012-09-29T14:02:27Z
Duration: 16 min 19 s
Description: Aris Venetikidis is fascinated by the maps we draw in our minds as we move around a city -- less like street maps, more like schematics or wiring diagrams, abstract images of relationships between places. How can we learn from these mental maps to make better real ones? As a test case, he remakes the notorious Dublin bus map.

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Aris Venetikidis |

TEDxDublin

• September 2012

Aris Venetikidis is fascinated by the maps we draw in our minds as we move around a city -- less like street maps, more like schematics or wiring diagrams, abstract images of relationships between places. How can we learn from these mental maps to make better real ones? As a test case, he remakes the notorious Dublin bus map.

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Making sense of maps

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