Mapping the imagined

This paper explores the relationship benveen the map and the imagination, the imagined and the act of representation and translation. Through a discussion of the phenomenon of imagining, the imagined and the imagination particularly as they relate to the creation of placescapes (Casey 2002), it is proposed that maps and the act of mapping enable us to travel to, and perhaps even know, places that we have never been. In this way the mapping of unknown geographies can help make the imagined real, and who knows where that may lead us.