The ICA's Working Group on Art and Cartography (extant from 2008 to 2011) was transformed into a mature Commission at the last General Assembly, giving it a four-year period (2011 to 2015) to address a number of terms of reference and develop a programme of activities. The commission is led by Canadian geographer Sebastien Caquard, with Barbara Piatti of ETH Zurich Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation as vice-chair. The commission last met at the Dresden ICC in August 2013. In a pre-conference workshop, run jointly with the Commission on Maps and Society, the links between maps and the artistic elements of video games and 'other worlds' construction were explored. As digital and mobile-based gaming becomes more sophisticated and more content-rich, the need to create artificial or augmented environments becomes more important, and the resultant maps of such environments are interesting additions to the cartographic oeuvre. The use of games to help in teaching geography and introducing schoolchildren to the concepts of mapping and GIS was also considered at the workshop.
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