Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · Jun 18 Last week I was invited to Yale University to lead an activity that I invented called "A Map for a Cat." It's about human-centered design as it relates to cartography and the students immediately got what I was trying to do. They never missed an opportunity to say "yes, and."
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Hi! So was the idea to literally attempt to make a map for a non human such as a cat? I really like the premise of this!
Hi Andrew I teach IB theory of knowledge to high schoolers and we talk about maps and representation and choices a lot, this sounds right up our alley. Is there a link to a video or anything to see what y’all tried out? I’d love to do something like this for my students
Maps are reflections of reality but the symbols we use to encode that reality are more open to interpretation than we usually consider. Why do maps look like that? When we tell stories with maps, who are we talking to? Are we using their language? GIS is more than software. We play with all of it.