Monday, October 2, 2017

Doug Healy – healy.doug@gmail.com

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

Boston EdTalk

Also in May, we delivered a talk at the 2017 Boston EdTalks, sponsored by the Boston Foundation.

It was an genuinely thrilling and inspiring evening, with talks by teachers and administrators, on topics ranging from using literary criticism to understand race and gender, to mindfulness for

You can see the talks at http://www.tbf.org/videos/2017/may/boston-edtalks-2017.

We're at about 1:46:48.

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Developing professionally with maps!

In May we led a profession development workshop for teachers at the Boston Public Library's Levenenthal Map Room.

The teachers followed in the philosophical footsteps of Guy Debord and went on a derive (drift) through the Back Bay. Then they returned to the library and made beautiful maps of their experiences. The focused everything from architecture to the presence of government - fire hydrants, parking meters, laws, and an anti-Trump protest.


 



















Thursday, April 28, 2016

If you want to see more maps - many, many  more - go to our pinterest sites:

https://www.pinterest.com/dheals/maps/

https://www.pinterest.com/alibiali/mappingesqueish/


Monday, September 28, 2015

Some Student Work


Coleman Hirshberg - 2 journeys

Melanie Li - Morning map

Melainie Li - Two Journies

Melanie Li - CSW's rocks

Melanie Li - Time-Space book
Willa Cosinuke & Nico-Chinatown sound map

Willa Cosinuke-5 CSW maps

Willa Cosinuke-book

Zoe Cohen-map of morning

Raewyn Fairless-5 CSW maps

Raewyn Fairless - Power map

Reese (Rose) Molenkamp -Map of the Unmappable

Tino Christelis - CSW map

Tino Christelis - Time Space book

Willa Cosinuke - Map of Power

Willa Cosinuke -Time Space Book

End of mod art show - Overview - Psychogeoraphy 

Owen Sanders - Power on Nantucket

Paloma Bohanan - 5 maps of CSW

Paloma Bohanan & HaRim Bong - Chinatown

Paloma Bohanan - Map of power

Molly Warncke - TimeSpaceContinuum -The Road

Nica Franklin - 5 CSW maps

Nica Franklin - TimeSpaceContinuum

Olivia Keppler - 2 walks on Newbury Street

End of Mod art show - Overview - 5 CSW maps etc.

TIno Christelis - Power of Self

Raewyn Fairless & Julian Milkey - Chinatown map


Melanie Li - notebook

Melanie Li - notebook

Merissa Collins - puzzle map

Molly Warncke & Owen Sanders - Chinatown Map

Melanie Li -5 CSW maps - leaf types



Melanie Li - Time Space book


Aly Lapides - TimeSpaceContinuum-all

Caroline Hickey & Zoe Cohen - Chinatown Map

Caroline Hickey-Time Space book

Coleman Hirschberg - time/space book

Coleman Hirschberg- room map

CSW memory group map

Devon Rosenberg-question map

Devon Rosenberg - time/space

Devon Rosenburg - box map

HaRim Bong - Power in Korea map

Harper Mills - TimeSpace Book

Jessica Cumberbatch - 3D wire map

Jessica_Cumberbatch - Endless map

Jingxin Yang - Map of Hank Williams song

Jingxin Yang-5 CSW maps - furniture of CSW

Jingxin Yang - map of US history class

Jingxin Yang - 5 maps of CSW

Joanna Cabrera -map of power

jordan Carey and Mark Gartsbeyn - Chinatown map

Jordan Carey - 2 trips

Jordan Carey - Power of Family

Mark Gartsbeyn - TimeSpace Continuum book
Mason Liu - map of childhood - music lessons

Mason Liu

Melani Li - 5 maps of CSW - lamps

Melanie Li - 2 trips

Maelanie Li - 2 trips

Josh Glass - 5 maps of CSW - trees