214 Subway methods blended Into One international Metro Map

each subway machine looks like its own self-contained world, however what if those worlds were linked? the sector Metro Map takes the subway programs of 214 cities throughout 5 continents, and unifies them right into a single map, in order that taking the L-educate is just as prone to drop you off in Tokyo or Mumbai as it is in Williamsburg.

Designed with the aid of the brand new York-based totally collective ArtCodeData, the arena Metro Map is a digital collage that ties collectively 791 subway lines and eleven,924 stations into one sprawling megastructure of public transportation. The map’s model is in keeping with the diagram of the Tokyo Metro system, but incorporates stations from numerous others. even though it looks as if a fearful device of rainbow spaghetti, there is good judgment to the way the arena Metro Map is laid out, with the oldest subway programs connecting within the heart and newer ones on the outskirts of the map.

in step with the map’s dressmaker, Gerardo Cid, the germ of the theory for the world Metro Map came from Dutch artist regular Nieuwenhuys’s New Babylon challenge, a vision of an anti-capitalist “around the world city of the future” which might literally hover over the Earth, and be home to a new species of people, homo ludens, or “men at play.” Cid says New Babylon, whereas no longer sensible, fascinated him because it linked mobility and free transit with creative freedom.

the world Metro Map is an try to discover a few of those concepts on a smaller, more acquainted scale. “We chose the subway as a result of it’s a component with identical traits in each big city world wide,” says Cid. “It’s one thing someone dwelling in Tokyo, Mexico city or big apple or Istanbul can relate to. A map is only a option to say we’re all sharing a parallel experience, [so] why don’t we join it?”

consistent with New Babylon’s utopian ideas on how free transit can assist save the world, the sector Metro Map is now to be had from Kickstarter, with proceeds going to Open Accessibility, a non-profit that objectives to facilitate trip for folks dwelling with disabilities. because you simply recognize a huge chunk of the sector Metro Map’s 11,000+ subway stations are not wheelchair obtainable. Order a print right here.