#dymaxio

[fattorifraser-blog]

Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion map (’Fuller Projection Map’), c. 1954 imagines the globe as one island in one ocean.

Traditional world maps reinforce the elements that separate humanity and fail to highlight the patterns and relationships emerging from the ever evolving and accelerating process of globalization. Instead of serving as "a precise means for seeing the world from the dynamic, cosmic and comprehensive viewpoint," the maps we use still cause humanity to "appear inherently disassociated, remote, self-interestedly preoccupied with the political concept of its got to be you or me; there is not enough for both."