Christian Nold is a different kind of cartographer, a biomapper, who’s trying to map spaces in an entirely different way. He’s interested in mapping cities in a way that acknowledges that cities aren’t just infrastructure, but accumulations of people. He points out that we’ve hit a point in time when more than half the world’s populations live in cities. This cities, he offers, are fragile things – London has about a three day supply of food. If the rest of the world disappeared, Londoners would starve in a week. He speculates that cities are “consensual hallucinations” where more than half of the world lives.

J’aime beaucoup cette idée de retour à la cartographie symbolique du temps où l’humanisme classique régnait dans les esprits :

Maps of cities are sterile things – they show roads and structures, but not people or emotions. He shows us a map from the 17th century, showing trees, rivers, people fishing and hunting. He’s hoping to create modern maps that are humanized in a similar way.

Source : My Heart’s in Accra.