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can open up the world and depict the extent, imbalance and order with both
accuracy and in a more emotive way. The images of the world we are shown are
the foundations of our understanding. To change it we must know it.
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To know
it we must see it. To see it we must draw it. To draw it we must visualize. Only
then can you begin to think from paper to people, from map to mechanism, from
screen to society:
There were times when the coloured areas on a colour ink-jet map
were suddenly obscured by white summer clouds which seemed to
scud in from nowhere between the map and the author's eyes, and
among which he could glimpse the sparkle of the sea by the coast, the
rivers which rolled down to meet it, the towns and villages and people.
Sometimes old people materialised out of the map of Norrland and
observed with melancholy the exodus of the young towards the coast
and the south. From the diagrams which display households suddenly
appeared a throng of people who with muted voices told of their lives,
of their loneliness, of their joy in their children and of their hopes on
their behalf.
(Szeg o, 1984, p. 30)
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We need to see more clearly the social structure we are trying to alter: 'It may seem that the
present world is not worth knowing - only worth changing. But to change it one must know it'
(Warntz, 1975, p. 75).
