by Eric Holdhusen | Jan 10, 2019 | DUR January 2019
If there’s one thing that I took away from this small mapping project, it’s that you want to set your goal from the beginning and have a good vision of where you what you want to show with your data before you start delving into books and web archives. To...
by Thea Brenner | Jan 10, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Its been a week now since we first started on this mapping endeavor, which also means that I’ve spent the last week researching ancient organs in France. For our first assignment, I selected a map on the “La Diffusion de l’Orgue dans le Chrétienté...
by west3 | Jan 10, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Any well-made map should be easy to read. No matter how complex the subject matter is, I should be able to look at a map and at least get a good sense of what is going on and what message the map is trying to convey. Unfortunately, this map on Influential Centers for...
by Jessie Camp | Jan 10, 2019 | DUR January 2019
The Protestant Reformation happened over 500 years ago, so why should we still care about it? It was just a whole bunch of religious white men arguing with each other, right? Well to some extent, yes. But the Reformation changed the entire world, especially in regards...
by Ian Schipper | Jan 10, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Throughout the process of mapping the musical centers of Italy in the 17th century, I found myself falling into exactly the same pitfalls I predicted. I wanted to map EVERYTHING. In an effort to avoid the lackluster and arbitrary nature of the first map, I tried to...
by Isabel Kramlinger | Jan 10, 2019 | DUR January 2019
After critiquing the cluttered and vague print map on Mozart’s travels created by Atlas Historique de la Musique, I immediately regretted my criticism once I learned I would have to replicate the map with the goal of improving upon it in some way shape or form. Where...
