Super Geographies
Rethink our place.
Reimagine our identity.
Objective
Super geographies (Neo.Geo) rethink geography. Their aims are:
- to go beyond traditional conceptions of the world and its shape (physical geography and the nation state);
- to create new cartographies and topographies of the world based on any group that users identify themselves with.
Users register and submit information anonymously about themselves, either directly through the New Geographies website, or though SNS applications.
The resultant data is presented as a new conception of our world, or "super-geographies". Super-geographies redraw the world, and invite users and viewers to identify with groups beyond those immediately obvious to us in our daily lives. Users are therefore able to express their place across borders or conventional group delineations by changing their profile as a response to real world events and changes.
Datasets generated by user profiles will be displayed as new world cartographies. 'Nations' are redefined and constantly redrawn in every dimension of identity: based on nationality; based on tastes and preferences; based on country of residence; based on preferred country of residence; based on politics; based on favourite band or movie. These new fluid social geographies can then be displayed as a new vision of the world. Users can then identify with those who might traditionally seem 'other' or 'strange' or as 'them' versus 'us'.
New nations would arise, based on all manner of dimensions, and the size and influence of existing nations would be in constant flux: for example, foreign policy or a nation's leadership and regime changes correlates with its virtual population on Neo.Geo.
Benefits
Neo.Geo will operate as a not-for-profit entitiy: a social experiment that is designed to help people reflect on how they relate to the rest of the world and their place in it. Neo.Geo is all splash, not cash. It is designed to evolve itself. Once the technical framework is provided, users may use datasets to present their own cartographic views of the world from templates / ready-made representations. See Worldmapper for an example of the envisioned data display (it's the same-same, but different).
More sophisticated users, designers, programmers and academics could produce their own templates for data representation, thus showcasing their abilities and ideas.
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