The cosmography
The Seven Rooms
The atlas is arranged as a medieval cosmography - seven rooms, each asking a different question of the world. Enter one to read its essays, walk its maps, and see where its borders touch the others.
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Room 1
The Earth
Geography, landscape, and ecology - the world as ground before it is drawn.
- 1 essay
- 1 sheet
- 3 layers
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Room 2
The Map
Cartography, projection, and navigation - the craft and argument of the map itself.
- 1 essay
- 31 sheets
- 10 layers
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Room 3
The City
Civilisation, urbanism, and architecture - space made dense and dwelt in.
- 1 essay
- 23 sheets
- 4 layers
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Room 4
The Border
Politics, empire, and identity - the lines that claim, divide, and define.
- 2 essays
- 4 sheets
- 10 layers
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Room 5
The Road
Travel, trade, and exploration - the world experienced as movement and route.
- 2 essays
- 25 sheets
- 13 layers
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Room 6
The Archive
History, memory, and archaeology - maps as artefacts and the silences they keep.
- 1 essay
- 30 sheets
- 9 layers
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Room 7
The Theatre
Philosophy, knowledge, and abstraction - mapping as a way of staging the world.
- 2 essays
- 25 sheets
- 4 layers
