Roxana Torre's "Personal World Map" is an interactive world map that is distorted depending on the user's time and budget limiation for his/her travel plan. The project starts with world wide map, and the viewer will be given multiple cities s/he starts with. From the center city, user will input his/her time and budget (in euro) for the trip and the map will be distorted to show the users possible destinations for their trips. Rather than distorting map geographically, she chose to do it by money or travel time distances.
I think the message she was trying to convey throught this project is the difference in how today's people think about traveling. Due to the emergence of the low cost flight industry and online ticketing, people are allowed to make last minute decision on where they are going to go. Before this, people used to think the destination before money and time, but now they started to think of going to place 'anywhere except where they are now.' I think this is a great project depicting the change in how people perceive things due to the advance in techonology.
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Furtherfield Review
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=162
Personal World Map
http://www.personalworldmap.org/
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