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Join us for Experimental Geography: Mapping as an Activist Practice with Daniel Tucker!

James David Morgan wrote this post at 2:04 pm on July 12th, 2010.

UPDATE: Experimental geographers who were able to attend this event, and others who couldn’t be there, can download the template of the Notes for a People’s Atlas of Greater Boston map and get submission instructions here.

Groundswell and the Design Studio for Social Intervention present a discussion of mapmaking as an activist practice with Daniel Tucker.

The presentation will focus on Daniel’s involvement with the Experimental Geography exhibit (2009) and his organizing of the We Are Here map archive.  We will also provide blank maps with the political border of the Greater Boston Area so that we can craft submissions for Notes for a People’s Atlas, and we’ll explore ongoing mapping projects by attendees.  Artists, activists, cartographers, and everyday experimentalists encouraged to attend!

Experimental Geography with Daniel Tucker
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Why maps?
Because maps are a visual tool for sharing information with others. Because they can be produced by many people and combined together to tell stories about complex relationships. Because maps are never finished and only tell part of a story that can constantly be expanded upon. Because power exists in space, struggle exists in space and we exist in space. Because we cannot know where we are going if we do not know where we are from.

Daniel has worked as a cultural and political organizer in Chicago for the last ten years.  From 2005-2010 he edited AREA Chicago – the print/online publication dedicated to researching and networking local social and cultural movements in Chicago.

Join us on July 28th at 7:ooPM at the Design Studio!  The location is on public transit, is wheelchair accessible, and doesn’t cost a thing.

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