Human Navigation

From a recent read, “You are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall” by Collin Ellard, mental space is topographical not metric or in other words people recollect how many turns but not how far they travel.

Human navigation is primarily visual, but there are other senses that can provide stronger connections to memory.  Ellard mentions artist Andrea Polli and projects like NYsoundmap that link place and sound, where peripheral or underlying information may form a tighter memory of place.