From the cave markings left by early man to the Swedish Parliament where Greta Thunberg began her climate strike, Es Devlin has represented crucial historical moments on a three-dimensional map at Pitzhanger gallery.
Designed for the Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery in Ealing, London, the new installation takes the form of an 18-metre-wide topographical model of a landscape made up of momentous historical events in chronological order.

"When I was a child I lived next door to a 1:100 scale model of my town which performed a 'son et lumiere' show," said the designer. "The windows of individual buildings would illuminate to locate stories told in voiceover."
"In a way it was a memory palace in action: ideas, words and sounds indexed within physical architecture: I never forgot any of those stories as each was indelibly etched into the buildings I passed daily," she added.
Marked times and places include the caves in southern Africa where homo sapiens left their first markings in the Paleolithic era.
The Renaissance period is represented by the tower in Frombork, Poland, where mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus drew the first heliocentric map of the universe in 1543.

Each of these critical moments are represented as fragments of buildings, cities and land that come together to form Devlin's personalised map of the "evolution of thought".
Other locations include the rooms in Clarendon Square, London, where 18th-century Brit...