About this course
Be honest – do we always need a map (“You are here!”), or is it more of an adventure to plunge into the unknown (“So, this is where I am!”)? We look at the earliest maps, clever maps, the pros and cons of the Mercator Projection (why can’t Australia be at the top instead of at the bottom?), contour lines, climate change maps, boundaries, fictional maps, and at ourselves as existential mappers.