Degrees of Separation

What would happend if you look at your city and saw something else?
How does a city look when people need to leave to survive?
This is an experiment to explore how we look at spaces, maps and the world around us.

Degrees of Separation

Degrees of Separation

Why do people flee from a city? How does a city look when people need to leave to survive? This map shows a satellite map of Manhattan and overlays it with satellite images from different cities in Syria destroyed by war.

This project aims to explore how we perceive spatial information and maps based on our previous knowledge of a place. Trying to better understand what does it mean to leave your home and seek refugee in another place.

Resources:

• Maps Syria - United Nations Institute for Training and Research

• From Syria, an Atlas of a Country in Ruins - New York Times

• A bird's-eye view of war-torn Syria - Thw Washington Post

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Click the circles on the map.

NY [as] Syria