Newtown Community Centre - Creative Map Making

These are the set of rubbings taken during the creative map making workshop, I am still to get some photographs of the community room to complete the final maps and will post the them once I have put the photographs together with the rubbings.

Creative Mapping - Newtown, Wellington

Even though there were only 5 of us at the workshop, due probably to a combination of bad weather and people being unsure what creative mapping is and what to expect, we did get some great images from the workshop.
As it was wet we stayed in the Newtown Community Centre and though at first glance the room did not look very promising for textures to take rubbings from but it in a way it makes you work harder to seek out interesting textures, the images below show some of the  textures we found.
The next stage will be to use the rubbings to form a map of the room and I will work on this over the next week or so, but also I hope to plan a day long creative community mapping workshop. This would be open to all and focus on producing a texture map of Newtown produced in a day and covering the whole area, what makes rubbings so good as a starting point is that they something most of us have done at some point and they provide a rich source of material and help in looking at a place in a different way.

Rubbings

Map Works

Woodblock Prints on Maps

Phases of a Moon

Enspiral Boardroom Map

Texture Maps Chalkle Class

These are the first part of the Wellington Atlas, starting with the Chalkle Class held in Enspiral's boardroom, where these rubbings of various textures were taken by participants in the class. Further classes will explore different aspects of creative map making and I will add more images and information as the project develops.

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