Alison Safford – asafford@csw.org
http://mappignmeaning.blogspot.com
Mapping Meaning Resources
...maps, like speeches and paintings, are authored collections of information and also are also subject to distortions arising from ignorance, greed, ideological blindness, or malice.~ Mark Monmonier, Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University in New York.
I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with.
~ Olafur Eliasson (artist/ architect)
Maps are just nude pictures of reality, so they don’t look like arguments. They look like “Oh my god, that’s the real world.” That’s one of the places where they get their kick-ass authority.
~ Denis Wood
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
~ Christopher Columbus
Videos
West Wing clip @ maps -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqC3FNNOaI
Canada and US: Bizarre Borders 2 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkYlIA7mgw
Readings (online)
Mapping Marginality
By Denis Wood
“The radical geographer explores the hidden, unmapped stories of his neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina.”
https://www.guernicamag.com/art/mapping-marginality/
Lynch Debord: About Two Psychogeographies
By Denis Wood
http://www.deniswood.net/content/papers/Carto45_3_003.pdf
Vernacular Mapping: Populist Artist and Artist Collective Work Relating to People’s Atlas Projects.
By Jayne Hileman and Rebecca Zorach
http://peoplesatlas.com/essays/npa-art/
An Introduction to Psychogeography
By Romy Rawlings
http://www.marshalls.co.uk/commercial/blog/article-an-introduction-to-
Theory of the Derive
Guy DeBord
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/theory.html
Psychogeography
By Alastair Bonnett
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199874002/obo-
Ira Glass Interviews Denis Wood: Emotional Cartographer
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ira-glass/denis-wood-emotional-cartographer_b_3570084.html
How Google and Apple’s Digital Mapping is Mapping Us
By Oliver Burkeman
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/aug/28/google-apple-digital-mapping
They Sold Our Streets and Nobody Noticed
By Rafael Behr
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/05/ground-control-anna-minton-review
Readings/ Books: not online
The Flâneur (essay)
The Arcade Project
Walter Benjamin (Harvard University Press)
The Power of Maps
Denis Wood (The Guilford Press)
The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
Katherine Harmon (Princeton Architectural Press)
From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association
Kris Harzinski (Princeton Architectural Press)
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
Katherine Harmon (Princeton Architectural Press)
On the Map: A Mind Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
Dava Sobel (Gotham Books)
Everything Sings
Denis Wood (Siglio)
How To Lie With Maps
Mark Monmonier (University of Chicago Press)
Rethinking the Power of Maps
Denis Wood (The Guilford Press)
Infinite City - A San Francisco Atlas
Rebecca Solnit (University of California Press)
You Can’t Get There from Here Strange Maps Collects 'Cartographic Curiosities' online
by Staff, Utne Reader - July-August 2010
Creative Resistance: Manhattan 1: Green Heart, & ll: Corporate Face
Adbusters #33, Jan/Feb 2001
Internet resources
Alison’s Mappingesqeuish pinterest
https://www.pinterest.com/alibiali/mappingesqueish/
Doug’s Maps pinterest
https://www.pinterest.com/dheals/maps/
My Block Education Project
“We are a NYC-based, fiscally sponsored non-profit organization connecting schools with professional filmmakers to teach citizenship training through video education. In Spring 2011 The MyBlock Education Program gave students in four NYC public high schools the opportunity to produce videos for a new online video map of NYC. This hands-on experience led to the unprecedented creation of a deeply humanistic body of work giving the public a personal and rare glimpse into the challenges many neighborhoods and their citizens currently face.”
http://www.myblockedu.org/student-video-map/
This American Life: Mapping
“Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way — by
drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world redrawn by the five senses.”
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/110/mapping
Mapping Weird Stuff: a course offered as part of the OWjL summer camp at Ohio Wesleyan.
https://mappingweirdstuff.wordpress.com
Kitchen Budapest and UrbanCyclr
(video maps showing time based cycling patterns in Budapest)
https://vimeo.com/40866482
HYPERRHIZ 12: Mapping Culture Multimodally
“This special issue of Hyperrhiz uses the phrase cultural mapping to describe both a practice and an
emerging interdisciplinary field. With multiple roots extending through theory and diverse areas of
practice, from artistic inquiry to community planning, cultural mapping reflects the spatial and placed-based research in cultural and artistic studies, architecture and urban design, geography, sociology, cultural policy and planning, and e-media studies. Its recent adoption within a variety of disciplinary areas has necessitated new methodologies, perspectives, and disciplinary objectives.”
http://hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz12/introduction/introduction.html
Related to idea of walking as mapping/ art
The Blue Mountains are Constantly Walking: On the Art of Hamish Fulton
By Andrew Wilson
http://www.maureenpaley.com/system/assets/files/1568/original/FH-2002-00-
00_walking_journey-web.pdf
The Crisis in American Walking: How We Got Off the Pedestrian Path
By Tom Vanderbilt
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/walking/2012/04/why_don_t_americans_walk_more_the_crisis_of_pedestrianism_.html
