(Pics) Emily Fischer’s Tactile Quilted Maps

Architect Emily Fischer believes that her profession is essentially about designing information for others to build from – and in a way, identical to map-making. Exploring this notion outside of the usual bounds of creating buildings, Fischer has begun crafting a series of quilts that map out cities and neighborhoods. She’s produced a map of Detroit, a handful of neighborhoods in Brooklyn and will create one of kind pieces that map locations special to the recipient.

Brooklyn Based explains:

The idea of creating a map on a quilt came to her about seven years ago, when her mother’s eyesight began failing. “All of my projects after that were about the other senses,” she says, and touch was one of the most important to her. (Haptic Lab, the name of her company, refers to touch.) Fischer’s “experiments in tactile wayfinding” began with a map of Detroit, where she went to school, but here in New York she’s focused on the neighborhoods around her: Park Slope, Red Hook, Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Dumbo, Fort Greene/Clinton Hill, and Williamsburg.

[via Brooklyn Based]