The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under COVID-19

The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under COVID-19

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  • Create Date:2022-05-22 06:51:42
  • Update Date:2025-09-06
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  • Author:Laura Bliss
  • ISBN:0762478128
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Summary

The Quarantine Atlas is a poignant and deeply human collection of more than 65 homemade maps created by people around the globe that reveal how the coronavirus pandemic has transformed our physical and emotional worlds, in ways both universal and unique。 Along with eight original essays, it is a vivid celebration of wayfinding through a crisis that irrevocably altered the way we experience our environment。

In April 2020, Bloomberg CityLab journalists Laura Bliss and Jessica Lee Martin asked readers to submit homemade maps of their lives during the coronavirus pandemic。 The response was illuminating and inspiring。 The 400+ maps and accompanying stories received served as windows into what individuals around the world were experiencing during the crisis and its resonant social consequences。 Collectively, these works showed how coronavirus has transformed the places we live, and our relationships to them。

In The Quarantine Atlas, Bliss distills these stunning submissions and pairs them with essays by journalists and authors, as well as notes from the original mapmakers。 The result is an enduring visual record of this unprecedented moment in human history。 It is also a celebration of the act of mapping and the ways maps can help us connect and heal from our shared experience。

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Reviews

April Kniess

This coffeetop book has been well written and formatted for easy reading。 It is an accumulation of individual's interpretation of a map showing how their lives changed for work/play/childcare/exercise/entertainment during the Covid-19 pandemic。 I thoroughly enjoyed reading/looking at the included maps that individuals from all over the globe drew with their brief descriptions。 Some people's world became extremely small while others ventured out more。 The essays submitted were insightful and thou This coffeetop book has been well written and formatted for easy reading。 It is an accumulation of individual's interpretation of a map showing how their lives changed for work/play/childcare/exercise/entertainment during the Covid-19 pandemic。 I thoroughly enjoyed reading/looking at the included maps that individuals from all over the globe drew with their brief descriptions。 Some people's world became extremely small while others ventured out more。 The essays submitted were insightful and thought provoking。 One quote that you often heard during the pandemic was, "we're all in this together," but oh my, how different the pandemic affected us all in more ways than one。 Many suffered loss of a loved one, jobs, connections with friends and relatives, as well as closure of businesses that may never reopen。 Some people gained financially and others hit rock bottom。 There were challenges depicted in some of the maps that people endured, I felt sadness but there was also joy many discovered in nature or kindness from strangers。 When you think of asking someone to draw a map, you can't even fathom how wide the word "map" opens the creativity of many until you spend quality time reading this awesome book。 What a great gift idea too。 。。。more