The Knowledge Cartography website is dedicated to researching how cartography can be used to represent various types of information, and they’re performing most of their research with a tool called ‘ATLAS’.
The images displayed below are screenshots taken from ATLAS, the application that’s being developed to explore the possibilities of the application of a cartographic metapjor to the realms of knowledge. The concept of atlas in this context doesn’t depict as much a list of maps, but rather a system of representations of space, a communication device aimed at representing complex contexts through the use of many partial overlapping narrations: a network of maps, diagrams, texts and peritexts, combined together to describe the space of research in its multifaceted aspects.
The work is based primarily on a series of papers from Marco Quaggiotto at the Politenico di Milano (Italy), and several videos of the ATLAS interface are available at their site.
