Maps And Wander Lines - Fernand Deligny

In 1968, Fernand Deligny created a network for autistic children at Monoblet, in the Cévennes region of France. Social workers were asked to transcribe the childrens movements and gestures, and for ten years, they traced maps of their own journeys and then, on tracing paper, the childrens wander lines were marked, circulating within these territories and gravitating towards activities, presences, objects, or nodes of life. Organised chronologically and by living area, this rather inscrutable book assembles nearly 200 maps of a world existing outside of language. Arranged like a notebook, the maps and their descriptions, based on interviews with their authors, are shown together.