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latest news:

Thumbs are back!

Oopsi.. we're in upgrade troubles! Due to some upgrades of our web server tubemap was not working for the last couple of days. Though all pages are back up again, currently the photos don't show up. We're sorry and we're working on getting tubemap back to its old glory.

Tubemap New York http://ny.tubemap.org and Tubemap Washington http://dc.tubemap.org have been set up - go and get your friends in the states to get involved!

The exhibition back in March/April was a great success with over 200 visitors - thanks to everyone who made the time to come!


all londoners live in a tubemap

ever wondered what greenford looks like, or totteridge & whetstone? what about southfield, boston manor or becontree? how well do you really know the city you live in, or are you merely navigating your way around london using the tube map to keep your bearings? apart from overcrowded tourist sites what does london have to offer?

this project is a simple encouragement to be a tourist in your own city: to discover something new, challenge your routine of moving through london and to experience a different part of the city you live in.

step one:

look at the tubemap and pick a station you have never been to

step two:

take a camera, get on the tube and make your way to your station of choice

step three:

alight at the tubestation and begin your discovery of the area around your station of choice (please don't just take pictures of the station only). make it a fun day out and let the world be part of it.

step four:

upload your pictures onto www.tubemap.org and see the network grow.

the idea goes further:

leading on from the interactive web-based map the aim is to transform this into an exhibition – a walkable space including the best submitted pictures, culminating in a cartographic installation of london and all the components the city is made of.


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New stations added?

Stations currently on the network by tubeline

Stations in alphabetical order


I would like to thank everybody for contributing to the project!!!

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Since wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic system, it is difficult to explain precisely in western terms. According to Leonard Koren, wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty and it "occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West."

"Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.

"It is the beauty of things modest and humble.

"It is the beauty of things unconventional."

(quoted from "WABI-SABI: FOR ARTISTS,DESIGNERS, POETS & PHILOSOPHERS," 1994, Leonard Koren)

The concepts of wabi-sabi correlate with the concepts of Zen Buddhism, as the first Japanese involved with wabi-sabi were tea masters, priests, and monks who practiced Zen. Zen Buddhism originated in India, traveled to China in the 6th century, and was first introduced in Japan around the 12th century. Zen emphasizes "direct, intuitive insight into transcendental truth beyond all intellectual conception." At the core of wabi- sabi is the importance of transcending ways of looking and thinking about things/existence.

  • All things are impermanent
  • All things are imperfect
  • All things are incomplete

(also taken from WABI-SABI: FOR ARTISTS,DESIGNERS, POETS & PHILOSOPHERS, 1994, Leonard Koren):

Material characteristics of wabi-sabi:

  • suggestion of natural process
  • irregular
  • intimate
  • unpretentious
  • earthy
  • simple

For more about wabi-sabi, see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WabiSabi.


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