The map I’ve chosen for October is of the user-generated-content type, not the high-tech digital OpenStreet kind, but a simple embroidered map. The map uses coloured thread to create a highly visual representation of where people had travelled from to come to Australia.
Image from NMA website video.
The National Museum of Australia – Canberra commissioned a large printed fabric world map, with mapping data from ourselves - Collins Geo, sponsored by Hema Maps and JT Leutenegger (fabrics) to allow children and adults to stitch their journeys. This became the centrepiece of the Museum's Where in the World, the family discovery space program which marked the opening of the new Australian Journeys gallery. The gallery “traces Australia's interconnections with the world. People have journeyed to and from the Australian continent for millennia. Each year, almost 11 million people arrive in Australia, and the same number depart.”
To see how the collective embroidery developed from a plain map, click on the link below which uses time-lapse photography to condense two weeks of stitching time.
Map creation time-lapse video (2.2MB MPEG4 QuickTime, 21 seconds).
The National Museum of Australia – Canberra commissioned a large printed fabric world map, with mapping data from ourselves - Collins Geo, sponsored by Hema Maps and JT Leutenegger (fabrics) to allow children and adults to stitch their journeys. This became the centrepiece of the Museum's Where in the World, the family discovery space program which marked the opening of the new Australian Journeys gallery. The gallery “traces Australia's interconnections with the world. People have journeyed to and from the Australian continent for millennia. Each year, almost 11 million people arrive in Australia, and the same number depart.”
To see how the collective embroidery developed from a plain map, click on the link below which uses time-lapse photography to condense two weeks of stitching time.
Map creation time-lapse video (2.2MB MPEG4 QuickTime, 21 seconds).
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