[act-ma] TONIGHT:: Experimental Geography - Mapping as an Activist Practice

[David Morgan]

[ Read this invitation on our website here: http://ow.ly/2aktj
]

Groundswell and the Design Studio for Social Intervention present
a
discussion of mapmaking as an activist practice with Daniel Tucker [1].

Daniel has worked as a cultural and political organizer in Chicago for

the last ten years.

Join us TONIGHT, July 28th at 7:00PM at the Design
Studio (1946 Washington
Street, Roxbury, MA) [2]. The location is on public
transit, is wheelchair
accessible, and attending doesn't cost a thing.


Artists, activists, cartographers, and everyday
experimentalists
encouraged to attend!

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. 

The presentation
will focus on Daniel's involvement with the Experimental
Geography [3]
exhibit (2009) and his organizing of the We Are Here [4] map
archive. We
will also craft submissions for Notes for a People's Atlas [5],
a book soon
to be published by Daniel and friends.

Download the flyer PDF in
print-ready [6] or web-only [7] format.

-- 
James David
Morgan
Co-Founder
The Groundswell
Collective
http://www.groundswellcollective.com/
http://groundswellcollective.com/store
http://blog.groundswellcollective.com/

Links:
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[1]
http://www.miscprojects.com/
[2]
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=4125810636577874244&q=Design+Studio+For+Social+Intervention,+Boston,+MA&hl=en&cd=1&cad=src:pplink&ei=slc7TOb4EJL6yAWw-oXGCA
[3]
http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/index.php/site/exhibitions/experimental_geography
[4]
http://mapsarchive.org/
[5]
http://peoplesatlas.areaprojects.info/
[6]
http://blog.groundswellcollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/danieltuckerevent-hires.pdf
[7]
http://blog.groundswellcollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/danieltuckerevent-lowres.pdf
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