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Who Makes The Map, Makes Us

 
by Christopher Burman
First Published
4th May, 2022
Reading Time
2437 words – 10 minutes

The Shape of The Earth

Über Alles

References

  1. Yossef Rapoport, Emilie Savage- Smith, An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe, The Book of Curiosities, Brill, 2014
  2. Gerald J. Toomer, “Al-Khwarizmi” in Charles Coulston Gillispie (ed.), Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 7, Gale Cengage, 1981
  3. Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Fadlallāh Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic al-Umarī, “The Mamunic World Map.” Science, vol. 1, Routledge, 1996.
  4. Edward S. Kennedy, “Mathematical Geography,” in Roshdi Rashed (ed.),
  5. Cyrus Alai, “Mapping the Mediterranean: By the Cartographers of Medieval Islamic Societies” in Journal of the International Map Collectors’
  6. O.A.W. Dilke, “The Culmination of Greek Cartography in Ptolemy,” in J.B. Harley, David Woodward (eds.), The History of Cartography Volume 1: Press, 1987. Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, The University of Chicago
  7. Jordana Cepelewicz, “The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces” in Quanta Magazine, January 14, 2019.
  8. Hexagonal Hierarchical Geospatial Indexing System 2018, h3geo.org
  9. OGC DGGS Standards Working Group www.ogc.org/projects/groups/dggsswg.
  10. Yahya Abdullahi, Mohamed pp. 243–251. Rashid Bin Embi, “Evolution of Islamic Geometric Patterns” in Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2013, vol. 2

About

Fulfilment Centre is an on-going research and writing project by Christopher Burman, focused on technology, cities and how we use our brains.
Christopher Burman is an urban technologist, artist & co-founder of collaborative design studio Heat Island.
He is currently a Lecturer at The Bartlett, UCL. Between 2018 and 2020 he was Director of Digital Strategy at Strelka KB. He was previously a core-team member at Pachube (now Xively), a platform for storing and sharing sensor data and connecting IOT devices acquired by Google in 2018, for which he was nominated for a Design of the Year award by The Design Museum, London.
His work as an artist explores the politics of technology and digital production through the use of installation, software and audio and has been shown internationally including at MANIFESTA12, Palermo, KW Institute, Berlin, Jupiter Woods, London and Kunsthalle Lissabon, Portugal.
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