International Polar Year Poster

How can we make the intangible tangible? How can we see climate change, locate it, pinpoint its effects?  This blog is a course project to explore the role of maps in communicating climate change.  We recognise all maps as arguments, proposing not only the location of something, but claiming particular meanings, values, and agendas.  Following the work of Denis Wood and John Fels in their recent book The Natures of Maps (2008), we investigate how maps can propose various meanings of climate change.

This is a project of a January-term  Geography course at Middlebury College entitled, “The Cartography of Climate Change,” by visiting instructor Molly Holmberg.