# Making sense of maps

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxDublin
- Speaker: Aris Venetikidis
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Psychology and the brain, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/aris_venetikidis_making_sense_of_maps)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Aris Venetikidis is fascinated by the maps we draw in our minds as we move around a city -- less like street maps, more like schematics or wiring diagrams, abstract images of relationships between places. How can we learn from these mental maps to make better real ones? As a test case, he remakes the notorious Dublin bus map.

## Lectures

1. [Making sense of maps](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/aris_venetikidis_making_sense_of_maps/357316199ea4), 17 min (TED's player)