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Project A: decoding & encoding the map


 



John Berger / Ways of Seeing , Episode 1 (1972)

  
Way of seeing 
Ways of Seeing is a 1972 BBC four-part television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. Berger's scripts were adapted into a book of the same name. The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation series, which represents a more traditionalist view of the Western artistic and cultural canon.








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Sound Map of London
The key on the left-hand side shows the most common sound categories encountered. The louder a particular sound type encountered at the centre of a grid square, the darker its icon. More than one icon of the same kind means that sound takes up more of the recording's length. Despite the wide spacing of the recording points and the brief duration of the sound files, they seem to do a reasonable job of plotting in outline the common or persistent sound types heard around London during the daytime.



The Walden Soundscape
The original image beneath the shaded circles, courtesy of the Concord Public Library, is of Thoreau’s engraving of his survey map of Walden Pond. You can explore the soundscape at Walden Pond through this sound map. Just click on the image above to access the map and scroll down the left column to hear the sounds of birds and the trains passing at different points around the pond. Take a moment to listen to how long it takes for birds to resume singing after the train passes.




Resources:
How to read a map
How to read Maps - Grid References (Geography Skills)
Types of map 
Sound maps of London

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