We {heart} "Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination" by Katharine Harmon
First in the "We heart..." series, a beautifully-illustrated book showing an eclectic and colourful mix of maps & charts of real and fictional places, bodies, dreams, maps made of sticks or carved into stone. It plunges us in the magical world of Places, playing with the concepts of finding our own in the world and having our unique vision of places based on memory and emotions rather than geographical facts. Everyday we build our own landscape, we create and react to our surrounding environment. Places slowly end up meaning very different things to different people.
Try and draw a map of a place not as it is, but as you remember it and feel it. Let yourself be surprised by the outcome, by how your own story and creativity mix with geography. Throughout this blog, we will be looking at how cities are experienced and take shape in the heart and minds of people that live,work,love, interact and have fun in them and we will have a peek into their personal geography books...
Stay tuned!
