Sketch Maps: Drawing the Geographical Imagination

Download or read book Sketch Maps: Drawing the Geographical Imagination written by Carla Lois and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketch maps, despite their intuitive, informal appearance and seemingly naïve use, are intellectual devices and efficient tools that shape the geographical imagination, regardless of the drawing skills of their makers. By delineating the silhouettes of nations, we express territorial knowledge and geopolitical stereotypes that, although shaped at school from an early age, organized the way we interact with the world. why do we still need to draw maps? What is behind our common and naturalized practice of sketching maps? This innovative book deciphers why and how the intuitive mechanisms behind sketch mapping activate multiple conscious and unconscious knowledges about place and space.