LayerCake--an interactive mapping tool--was initiated by Sharon C. Smith, Ph.D., Program Head of the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT (AKDC@MIT) and she serves as the PI for the project. Working with designer and programmer, James Yamada (MDes, Harvard GSD, 2014), the tool is currently under development at AKDC@MIT. A 3-axis mapping tool, LayerCake enables users to build maps layering narrative, time, and space simultaneously. It is our intention that LayerCake be used by scholars, researchers, and students to tell stories, display collections, and reveal complex temporal and geographic relationships in ways that purely spatial maps cannot.