Looking back on the first ten years of Livingmaps Network Every project has its founding myth , a story about its origins in which the cold rational prose of ‘aims and objectives’ melts into the thicker air of an auto-poetics. The risk is that in the process starting points become end points, and the capacity for improvisation gives way … [Read more...] about Living Maps : towards a poetry made by all
Living Maps - Critical Cartographies of the City
Cartographies of Violence/Rhetorics of War
Livingmaps Webinar November 28th 18.00 - 20.00 (UK time) In this webinar we will hear from three leading researchers on how maps are mobilised in conflict. This event is part of In and Against the Fog of War: Mappings from the Front Line, a programme of live events, webinars and workshops organised by Livingmaps Network addressing the historical and contemporary links … [Read more...] about Cartographies of Violence/Rhetorics of War
Living Maps Autumn Newsletter 2022
Livingmaps Network was started in 2015 by a small group of enthusiasts, none of whom were professional cartographers, but who were interested in challenging the dominant way maps were made, used or thought about and in developing alternative , more democratic and participatory approaches to doing all three. Over these past seven years Living Maps has established itself as a … [Read more...] about Living Maps Autumn Newsletter 2022
The Map, the Territory and the Fog of War
This is an edited version of a talk given to the opening session of ‘Cartography on the Front Line’ seminar series, at the British Library on October 27th, 2022. You may download the file using this link. … [Read more...] about The Map, the Territory and the Fog of War
The Cat Sat on the Map: Some reflections on post human cartography
The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city. Few cats recall the time when there was no distinction: the streets and squares of men were also streets and squares of cats, and the lawns, courtyard, balconies, and fountains; you lived in a broad and various space. But for several generations now domestic felines have been … [Read more...] about The Cat Sat on the Map: Some reflections on post human cartography