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Maps are sense-making machines
They are the graphic representation of places and experiences real, imagined, or ignored. Maps tell visual stories revealing patterns and meanings. There is beauty in the order of information.
Artist Educator Workshops
Withrow Jr. Public School, Toronto, Canada
Karen Kain School of the Arts, Toronto, Canada
Whitechapel Gallery, London UK Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
and PS102Q, PS 157, PS 243 Wave Hill, Bronx, NY DIA Chelsea, NYC and School of the
Physical City United Nations School NYC
Why Mapping?Deleuze and Guattari
In 1987, French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari:‘The map is open and connectable in all of its dimensions; it is detachable, reversible, susceptible to constant modification. It can be torn, reversed, adapted to any kind of mounting, reworked by an individual, group, or social formation. It can be drawn on a wall, conceived of as a work of art, constructed as a political action or as a meditation’
Goals of project:
Gain an understanding of maps and mapping conventions
Learn about the different kinds of maps that we use and the kinds of information they communicate
Learn about what mapping teaches us about our community, environment, and ourselves
Learn about how artists use maps in their work or, as inspiration for their work
Create a descriptive map that is also a work of art, visually compelling, interesting
Some ideas for maps:
People Mapping: Create a color-coded map of the position of other people in relation to you on your route. Paint chip map: Create a map using paint chips to represent the colors on your mapFound Paint Map: Create a map using as many things as you can to make pigment adding water if necessary such as crushed berries, flowers, dirt, spices. Mark the location where you found each item on your map.-Invisible City: Create a map of your day that is fantasy or altered from reality in some or all ways.3-D Map: Create a 3-D Map of your walk using recycled materialsTraditional Map: make a map of your day measuring distances, building a key, highlighting and naming streetsFavorite place map: Make a map of your favorite places in the neighborhood.Micromap- Create a very small map of the smallest things on your way to schoolFreestyle Map: Make up your own method for creating a map. Include methodology and key to map with or on your map.Word map or concrete poem: Make a map using words to represent places or your feelings about those places.Play Map-Create a scavenger hunt map or a play map with different activities at stations
When did you last use a map? What did you use it for? What do maps tell us? Maps-Art or Science?
Conversation Starters
Warm ups
Map inspired Name Tag (5-10 minutes)
Word Map (5-10 minutes)
Close your eyes and think of the word "map". Write down all of the words that come to mind.
Can maps be art?
Why do we make maps? What kind of information can they
communicate? How do they communicate information? What tools do cartographers use?
“We are the original owners of this country. Our land was stolen from us by the Euro-American invaders . . . I can’t say strongly enough that my maps are about stolen lands, our very heritage, our cultures, our worldview, our being . . . Every map is a political map and tells a story---that we are alive everywhere across this nation . . .” Smith, Postmodern Messenger, Exhibition Catalogue, 2004
PLAY THE WALK
If cities are made up of paths, blocks, trees and tunnels, then buildings are its flesh and their materiality form the millions of square feet of its skin. Our skin is the largest of our organs, bearing the responsibility of holding our body together as well as letting things in and out. So do building’s envelops, so go ahead and ‘feel’ your city.
PLAY THE WALK: PLAYADAY
When walking down the street stretch your arm, open the palm of your hand and extend the tip of you fingers and feel the boundaries of your city: the walls, fences, glass barriers and hedges.
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