"Using rarely accessible data from the criminal justice system, the Spatial Information Design Lab and the Justice Mapping Center have created maps of these “million dollar blocks” and of the city-prison-city-prison migration flow of five of the nation’s cities."
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“The maps pose difficult ethical and political questions for policy makers and designers,” explains Kurgan “When they are linked to other urban, social, and economic indicators of incarceration, they also suggest new strategies for approaching urban design and criminal justice reform together.”
WOW.
I accidentally discovered that amazingness at the MoMa's
exhibit yesterday. But initially, I went to see an exhibition called:
The written introduction to the Color Chart exhibit explains that the featured artists portray beauty "found in the everyday rather than the ideal." By letting "life and art mingle rather than remain separate," their works may not look like much at first, but have to ability to later reveal their impressive conceptual intentions.
I discovered this stuff in college when I took a Contemporary Issues in Art class, and I immediately became smitten with the hidden-in-plain-site thought-process behind it all. Therefore, having the opportunity to see some of my favorite pioneering pieces at MoMa was something that I had to make a priority. And coincidentally, my trip to the museum came full-circle when appreciation for thoughts from the past (Color Chart) was met with new-found appreciation of thoughts for the future (Design and The Elastic Mind).
I mean, who knew that mapped flight patterns could be so beautiful?
I sure didn't. And speaking of maps...
Found in their permanent collection, this is close up on New York,
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