May 25th, 18.00-20.00: Public
Lecture
Joe Gerlach on Vernacular
Cartographies Discussant Les Back
Venue: Room G02, Bartlett School of Architecture, 140 Hampstead Road,
London NW1 2LX
Of late, much has been made of the politics of maps – to
the extent that reiterating the ‘power’ of maps has become something of a
truism, one that threatens, ironically, the political vibrancy of cartography.
Responding to this threat, the lecture examines another way of thinking about
the nature and ethics of mapping through the concept of ‘vernacular mapping’.
In doing so, the lecture points to a series of recent cartographic events in
which the geopolitics of mapping is refigured less as a ‘technology of
representation and capture’, and more as a ‘technology of anticipation’; no
matter whether it is used in the fields of participatory cartography, mental
health practice or political struggle.
Joe is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School
of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. Joe has a long-standing
research interest in the nature and geopolitics of mapping, specifically in
so-called ‘non-representational’ understandings of cartography. His fieldwork
has included participating in OpenStreetMap and other collaborative
cartographies in the UK, USA and Andean Latin America.
Les
Back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College and the author of many
books including Urban Multiculture
and The Art of Listening
Tickets £10 and £7 concession. Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joe-gerlach-vernacular-cartographies-tickets-24951572826
June 22nd, 18.00-20.00 Seminar: Community mapping and
citizen social science
Panellists : Muki Haclay, Giota
Alevizou , Nicolas Fonty , Barbara
Brayshay and John Wallett
Venue :The
Peter Hall Room (G01), UCL Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H
0NN
Muki is founder and director of Mapping for change
and pioneer of citizen science. Giota has just completed an ESRC funded project
on community asset mapping. Nicolas is an architect and is currently working on projects with
Just Space and LivingMaps, Barbara is a member of Gueilla Archaeology and editor of the Waypoints section of LivingMaps Review. John is the design director of LivingMaps and was
involved in the production of A Young Persons maps and Guide to the Olympic
park..
Tickets £10 and £7 concessions.
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