UPDATE: We’ve released a compilation of the maps made for Notes for a People’s Atlas of Greater Boston as a PDF. Get it here!
Experimental geographers who were able to attend last night’s event, and others who couldn’t be there, can download the template of the Notes for a People’s Atlas of Greater Boston map below.
Download the Notes for a People’s Atlas of Greater Boston PDF here
Submissions can be made in hard copy until September 1st and only digitally thereafter. Please mail to the address below, or send your map as a PDF via e-mail.
Groundswell
991 Massachusetts Ave #1
Cambridge MA 02138
You are encouraged to map out sites that are significant to you as someone who lives, work and plays in this city. You can map out sites of past or current political struggles, lost histories, cultural spaces, environmental devastation, personal histories, real estate speculation, social movements of the past, places of formal/ informal education, sites of gang violence, where to get the best coffee, places where tourists do not go, the periphery of the city, proposals for alternative uses of public space, distribution of wealth, anything. You are encouraged to combine, intersect, contrast, flip upside down themes or topics of your maps. You are encouraged to map out personal histories and points of interests as well as what else they relate to, why are these points important, and to whom are they important to?
Many thanks to the Design Studio for Social Intervention for hosting, and to the attendees and participants!
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i was disappointed i couldn’t make it wednesday. i’m interested to know if you discussed how to get a range people to fill in these atlas notes, workshop or street-corner or social media tactics.