Running + The City (My heart goes out to Boston)
Inspired by events in Boston yesterday, I wanted to share excerpts from a paper I presented at the 2012 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium. I’ve written and re-written this several times. … Continue reading
One Map, Three Narratives
Through selection, omission, framing, scale, orientation, naming and indexing, the author of the map presents a selective and distorted view of reality. This distortion is a key characteristic of maps. … Continue reading
One Journey, Five Improvisations
These itinerary maps are relics of journeys and experiences in space, enunciations of movement, appropriations and interpretations in which the subject/performer actualizes possibilities and interdictions. They are traces, or memories, … Continue reading
Reading the City
Neither the space nor the subject are the same after the journey. Indeed, they cannot be.
Maps are LIES!
Things started out well this morning. My running partner, the voice in my iPhone, the one I’ve named “Rachel” knew exactly where I was and how quickly I was moving. … Continue reading
Theres & Thises & What Elses
From Denis Wood, Rethinking the Power of Maps (2012): “People make maps to discover their minds and to connect themselves…Maps selectively link places in the world (theres) to other kinds of things … Continue reading
The new cartophobia
Day 2 of mapping my spatial practice. My ride up to work this morning: This is captured with my smartphone and RunKeeper (one of many services which provide a platform … Continue reading
Don’t forget the intangibles!
“Slated for completion by the spring of 2013 this project will result in a comprehensive inventory and database of our tangible cultural assets (facilities, organizations, people, public art, built heritage, … Continue reading
Maps: What is and what is not yet
aka: Further Adventures in Placemaking and Performing Place Continuing with my research on space and place, I’ve been considering the power of maps as rich and multi-layered representations of place, … Continue reading
The Sensual, The Powerful, The Playful
This essay explores theories, ideas and conversations of “place”. This work comes as a result of my immersion into scholarly writing by spatial and cultural theorists, as well as spatial … Continue reading
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