Mapping / counter mapping / site research
• intro to mapping (below)
Google Map – My Map
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1oYuFfyVsqJNB_r8kiRUTnFUDqz6PyQ5i&usp=sharing
Make an icon for your Google My Map
https://thenounproject.com/
brainstorming charrette:
invitation to our Miro Board
MAPPING
• Ongoing process of picturing, narrating
• A graphical (or other kind of)
representation of a set of relations
• Visual (or other kind of) arguments and stories—ideological..
thanks to Nerve Macaspac for this breakdown
HISTORICAL MAPS + COLLECTION
Maps Slideshow – part 1 – HISTORY
David Rumsey Historical Map collection – 70,000+ free, high-res maps.
including these that are georeferenced
Socks (“a non-linear journey through distant territories of human imagination”
Visual Atlas section
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New York Public Library Map Division
Huge collection of digitized maps in the NYPL map collection
example: Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
http://maps.nypl.org/warper/layers/1529
COUNTERMAPPING
This is Not an Atlas
https://notanatlas.org/
All their maps! with handy tags
ARTIST MADE MAPS (so many!)
Museum of Modern Art on Maps, Borders and Networks
– some artist examples
– activities and exercises
Maps Slideshow – part 2 – Artist / Activist and other Maps
Lize Mogel projects
The Sludge Economy
http://www.publicgreen.com/video.html
Nina Katchadourian maps
Some mages in slideshow above are from the book The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
MORE CONTEMPORARY MAPS / VISUALIZATIONS
blog post/essay: A Mess as a Queer Map by Sara Ahmed
(Inaugural director of the Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) at Goldsmiths)
Queering the Map, Lucas LaRochelle
Next time more on data driven maps +
Hypercities
Thick Mapping
Deep Mapping
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project