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Read original articles on the topics of cartography, architectural theory, data visualization, and design, as well as perspectives on the ways we navigate and understand (or fail to understand) the world around us. Less analytical, more philosophical, and as curious as always.

Maximallennium

Sophia Cain

Mar 19, 20216 min read

Maximallennium

What does it indicate when minimalist, "clean" architecture is considered the cutting edge of design, representative of the present time?

Open Seas

Sophia Cain

Mar 9, 20216 min read

Open Seas

Our inability to inhabit water leads us to depict it as a totally flat blue plane, although it's as just real as the world on land.

A Place in Time and Space

Sophia Cain

Feb 25, 20216 min read

A Place in Time and Space

In the earliest portion of the conceptual design process, a map is to be rolled out, drawn upon, and drawn from.

Here Be Dragons

Sophia Cain

Feb 17, 20217 min read

Here Be Dragons

As long as humans have used maps to visualize known places, we've had to deal with the areas that were still clouded by mystery.

You Are Here

Sophia Cain

Jan 21, 20213 min read

You Are Here

With regard to the integration of craft and technology, of the built and natural worlds, there is hardly any tool that compares to a map.

Hovertown Pilot Post

Sophia Cain

Jan 15, 20213 min read

Hovertown Pilot Post

Welcome to Hovertown, a show about maps and how they help us understand our many-faceted world.

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