Topophilia意为“对地方的热爱”，是一个探索人与地方之间联系的术语. It's also the topic and title of a new exhibition at the Earth Sciences & Map Library, Topophilia, which is open now until August 2025.

展览邀请观众通过约翰娜·穆勒的版画来思考他们自己的关系, ceramic installations by Rita Vali, 以及由地质科学/大气与空间物理实验室博士候选人Sam Cartwright和地图馆长Naomi Heiser共同策划的大学图书馆的精美地图集.

米勒和瓦利是当地的艺术家，他们深受科罗拉多州和西部景观的影响. Vali’s work specifically references her childhood growing up in Wyoming.

“Wyoming embodies my topophilia; it is my place of solace and a source of inspiration. A place I return to often,” said Vali in her curatorial statement.

两位艺术家都为这次展览创作了全新的作品，这是基于探索对他们和穆勒来说，地形癖意味着什么这一挑战, these works present "the shared histories of humans, as told by animals."

Topophilia was first introduced by poet W. H. Auden in 1948 and popularized in the 1970s as a geographical concept in the work of Yi-Fu Tuan, who founded the field of humanistic geography.

Jennifer Fluri, chair of the Geography Department, 他说，“地形癖”的含义已经进化到包括新的声音和观点, 这一点在为展览挑选的地图和作品中都有说明.

“这次展览中的地图突出了绘制地球(和其他行星)表面的机会和局限性. 地图引导和帮助博彩平台推荐在空间中导航，但它们也可以被用于压迫性的方式，”弗洛里说. "The aspirational form of topophilia remains open, 包容和愿意接受差异，这可以通过在博彩平台推荐的家乡吸引新来者，并提供分享和学习多种形式的地形喜好的机会来实现.”

In his role as guest curator, Cartwright与Heiser合作研究和选择地图，这些地图突出了制图师绘制三维空间的许多创造性方法, both terrestrial and celestial. 卡特赖特说，他的目标是“把遥远而陌生的地形带入内心的解脱。, whether here on Earth or at the farthest reaches of space."

图书馆的地图收藏中有丰富的不同时期和风格的最佳制图师和地形学家的例子, including mapping of space.

“I’ve wanted to create an exhibit about topophilia ever since reading D. H. Lawrence’s The Spirit of Place, 它提出了人类和某些地方之间超越地理位置的情感联系, terrain and even a sense of home,” said Heiser. “是什么让你如此热爱一个特定的风景，以至于你觉得自己一直都是其中的一部分? 每天与地图打交道，偶尔也会激起同样的熟悉感, as if the map has suddenly opened up and taken you with it.”

Topophilia is on view until August 2025 in the Earth Sciences & Map Library, now with extended evening and weekend hours.