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Experimental Mapping in the Central District
A workshop with Sara Zewde Wednesday, October 21st, 2020 at 5pm Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 832 1117 3082 Passcode: 591222 |
Over the course of history, mapping has been an essential tool of state power and the physical, cultural, and psychological project of colonialism. However, the scientific authority of maps can be challenged, and people and communities outside of the apparatus of state power have long made their own maps as a practice of self-determination. In this tradition, counter-, protest, and community mapping serve to produce maps “with data collected or verified by the community itself”2. Moreover, the arts have been key to experimenting with forms of mapping and challenging the definition of what is considered a map, by adding emotion, subjectivity, narrative, and political positions3.
This workshop is a 1-hour guided exploration of art-based, experimental mapping. The workshop will begin with a short introductory presentation on mapping. Then, each participant will go on a walk around their own neighborhood block. Finally, the group will re-join to make three different scales of experimental maps: the detail, the memory, and the community.
This workshop is a 1-hour guided exploration of art-based, experimental mapping. The workshop will begin with a short introductory presentation on mapping. Then, each participant will go on a walk around their own neighborhood block. Finally, the group will re-join to make three different scales of experimental maps: the detail, the memory, and the community.
The workshop will be facilitated by Sara Zewde, founding principal of Studio Zewde and Assistant Professor of Practice at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Sara was named the 2014 National Olmsted Scholar by the Landscape Architecture Foundation, a 2016 Artist-in-Residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and in 2018, was named to the National Trust for Historic Preservation's inaugural "40 Under 40" list. Most recently, she was named a 2020 United States Artists Fellow.
What You’ll Need
Participants are encouraged to use their medium of choice, inclusive of all visual, audio, or performance arts. Participants can use one or multiple of the following media that are at their disposal for the mapmaking exercise.
For Drawing, Painting, or Collage
What You’ll Need
Participants are encouraged to use their medium of choice, inclusive of all visual, audio, or performance arts. Participants can use one or multiple of the following media that are at their disposal for the mapmaking exercise.
For Drawing, Painting, or Collage
- (3) sheets of paper
- Your preferred or available media: watercolors, pens, markers, charcoal, etc.
- Your preferred or available media: clay, found materials
- Preferred or available instruments of writing
- A camera of your choice. Phone cameras are encouraged.
- Preferred or available instruments