Walled World

Mind-opening viz from Td Architects in Holland. I didn’t know about the Schengen ‘Wall’.

Td Architects have run a nice side-line in information visualizations for several years. I don’t always connect with their visual style. But they’ve created some really thought provoking images. Unfortunately, they’re locked behind the walls of a very-hard-to-navigate website. Get an RSS feed dudes!

(You can find them on their homepage listed under ‘SNOGs’ (?). The space debris one is cool. Let me know any other good ones you find.)

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15 Comments

  1. Bem
    Posted August 9, 2009 at 5:51 am | Permalink | Edit
  2. Posted August 10, 2009 at 1:40 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Nice, but this what is marked as future Schengen Borders is now current Schengen Border ;-)
    Here http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plik:SchengenAgreement_map_with_dates.svg&filetimestamp=20090222041810 is nice draw showing current “members of Schengen”

  3. derek
    Posted August 12, 2009 at 12:44 pm | Permalink | Edit

    OMG, this is the worst designed site EVER!!!!!

  4. Tom
    Posted August 12, 2009 at 3:01 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Nice indeed. But the UK and Ireland are not part of the Schengen Zone; something I curse every time I travel to “mainland” Europe.

  5. Shane
    Posted August 17, 2009 at 2:24 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Interesting, but it’s important to realise that a lot of the countries in the “poor” world are rushing towards wealth too: much of eastern Europe and south east Asia, for example. This division isn’t at all static.

  6. Tom
    Posted August 20, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Permalink | Edit

    This map must be using very old data. China is one of the worlds biggest economys. Are you sure on the data used??

  7. Posted September 8, 2009 at 11:02 pm | Permalink | Edit

    The map is quite inaccurate. Poland, Switzerland and the Baltic States, for example, have all been Schengen countries for years.

  8. ksn
    Posted September 11, 2009 at 11:44 am | Permalink | Edit

    this is what we call misinformation :D

  9. Ncpn
    Posted September 13, 2009 at 10:21 pm | Permalink | Edit

    “You forgot Poland” ;)

  10. Samuel
    Posted September 21, 2009 at 10:27 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Well, Schengen border does exist, but I don’t think it can be compared to The Fence or Gaza Border. It is a heavily protected border, bordering the EU (except the British Isles) and some other countries. Its protection comes from the fact that, when somebody enters a Schengen-area country, he or she may freely go through any other one without futher controls. Thus, is a person is granted with permissions to enter a country, they automatically apply to the rest of Schengen-area. But this is far from being a Wall, even in a metaphorical sense.

  11. Val
    Posted October 26, 2009 at 11:13 am | Permalink | Edit

    this map forgets about the French DOM-TOM areas in Caribbean sea (Martinique/Guadeloupe) the Dutch Curacao, French Guiana (bordering Brazil and Suriname), Comoros and Reunion in East Africa, just as examples…

  12. Anonymous
    Posted November 12, 2009 at 5:11 am | Permalink | Edit

    Very good image, and very bad at the same time.Keep on the info-graphic-blogging! Often provides more food-for-thought than many words.Does this imply that we should be against secure borders?

  13. Posted November 13, 2009 at 9:21 am | Permalink | Edit

    Thanks for the very nice post. I think the collective data on whose this chart has been built are bit old. After all nice information .

  14. Anthony
    Posted November 28, 2009 at 7:05 am | Permalink | Edit

    I believe you misspelled “Northern” above Australia.

  15. M
    Posted July 27, 2010 at 12:31 pm | Permalink | Edit

    It is somewhat true. The so-called ’48 countries’ (is 48 the right number? it’s definitely EEA + US + Canada + Australia + NZ + Japan + Sth K + Sing) can travel relatively fluidly across borders. As someone with a third-world passport who has widely travelled and lived in ‘the 48′ for the past 11 years, the visa application queue is infuriating if not expensive. (There is more in my bank account than in most people’s, and yet I still have to wait for 3 weeks to get a three-month visa… as opposed to those supposedly richer nationals who could fleece welfare systems and only have €100 in pocket to finance the trip.)

    But yes, visualisation well done!

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