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BERG · 2009 · MoMA, New York

Here & There —
Horizonless Projection
in Manhattan

What would it look like if a map could show a city from street level and from above simultaneously? A speculative cartographic project created at BERG with Jack Schulze and James King.

The maps begin in three dimensions at the viewer's feet, then curl upward into a more traditional top-down projection — the effect of being simultaneously inside and above a city. It's a map that asks what it feels like to navigate somewhere you're standing in, while seeing where you're going.

The name comes from the quality of the projection itself: the here of street level and the there of the aerial view folded into a single image. The horizon is removed entirely — the city just keeps going, curving up and over.

Here & There — Manhattan horizonless projection

Here & There was featured in Wired UK and exhibited at MoMA, New York as part of Talk to Me: Design and the Communication Between People and Objects (2011). It is now in MoMA's permanent collection.

Here & There — detail Here & There — alternate view