The poem about maps immediately brought to mind the Upside Down Globe (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Turned_Upside_Down_(sculpture)) near the London School of Economics. It is such a simple idea – looking at the world upside down, with Australia near the top – but it really does have a strong impact.
The poem about maps immediately brought to mind the Upside Down Globe (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Turned_Upside_Down_(sculpture)) near the London School of Economics. It is such a simple idea – looking at the world upside down, with Australia near the top – but it really does have a strong impact.
Which reminds me also of how different the world looks in some projections, where the true size of things is not distorted as with Mercator e.g. https://futuremaps.com/blogs/news/top-10-world-map-projections
It's a shame (and ominous) that the LSE scultpure removed Palestine.