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A Thirty-Minute Tour of World Map Images
Based on the popular and provocative book,
Seeing Through Maps, this new DVD provides a fascinating 30-minute exploration into the minds of twelve mapmakers and how their unique backgrounds, philosophies, values, and politics led each to select a particular mathematical formula to create their maps. Learn about the impact those world images have had on us, consciously and unconsciously. An invaluable resource for classes dealing with issues of cultural bias and ethnocentrism. Includes over 70 Powerpoint images and more.
Duration: 30 min
Date Produced: 2005
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Filmmaker Info
Produced by Ruth Abrams
Directed by Bob Abramms
Filmmaker's Bios RUTH ABRAMS | Producer
Ruth Abrams from Brookline, MA retired from her job as Director of
Amenities at New England Baptist Hospital in 1994. At 70 years old
with a undergraduate degree in photography she decided to go back
to school to study videography. Since that time she has won seven
awards for her video work including the 1998 Massachusetts Cable
Television Division; 2000 Hometown USA National Festival; and the
2003 Alliance for Community Media. Her collage and assemblage work
has also been shown at many venues around Boston including Newbury
College Gallery and the Boston Museum of Science.
BOB ABRAMMS | Director
In the 1970's Bob Abramms founded ODT, Inc. which offered
consulting and training to companies wishing to develop and honor
diversity in the workforce. Among the many mind-expanding tools
that Bob used in presentations and workshops were a variety of
maps, finding that they were excellent devices for showing
different perspectives. Eventually, ODT began selling those
alternative maps, and today most of the company's business is in
the publishing and distribution of products that offer "different
ways to see the world." Bob served as projector director for the
startling and beautiful "Population Map".
"Many Ways to See the World is more than a fascinating
lesson about maps. It opens the mind of the viewer to profound
perspectives on the interconnectedness of human beings everywhere.
I hope it will be shown in classrooms all over the country."
- Howard Zinn | Author of A People's History of the United
States
"An intriguing new video with a big message... A fascinating
exploration of world maps and their ability to convey powerful and
lasting images... Trainers can find many uses [including] sessions
on critical and analytical thinking; cross-cultural training;
negotiating differences; and more. Viewers will find it
motivational, entertaining, and educational."
- Government Training News
"This video is a delightful and wondrous resource to discover new
ways to see the world."
- Claire O'Brien | Museum educator, Springfield Museums
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