Today I came across the TED Talk of Parag Khanna titled “Parag Khanna maps the future of countries“. Interested in maps, the title itself drew me towards it. And I can say it was an interesting talk! Very interesting ideas on how to solve the current/future problems of the world. What I found most intriguing was the heavy use of maps as both driving the idea of itself as well as presenting the ideas. Almost no words are used in the “slides” only maps and visual animations. This is what makes a good presentation!
From a cartographic perspective the map use was a bit novel. When emphasizing some countries (i.e. France, Italy, Spain and Russia) the map simply only displayed these countries – and nothing else. Surprisingly this worked very well – probably due to the common knowledge of a world map that everyone shares. There are a lot of subtle cartographic “tricks” that were used – it is worth watching the presentation just for this reason.
I got inspired from this technique of both (seemingly) generating ideas from maps and in addition using almost solely the map as the presentation medium.
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