Australian and Chinese students unite to farewell smartphone maps

Staff and students from RMIT and East China Normal University are this week creating alternative maps based solely on Melbourne’s CBD.

Emma Watson reports.

“The project merges Chinese and local perspectives of Melbourne and aims for the Melbourne community to reflect on how their relationship with maps has evolved. Clare McCracken, an RMIT lecturer and coordinator of the program, says working with ECNU has provided a new outlook on how the world sees us.  “There’s been a lot of discussion in the last 12 months about how we see Asia and what we can do in Asia and how we trade with Asia. This project’s an opportunity to turn that around and ask how people see us.” The workshop intensive week will be turned into a film, to be broadcast at Federation Square this Sunday, 6pm. Emma Watson, City Journal News, Melbourne.”