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.

Days of the Week Maps

Sunday 

Tomorrow is Friday

Days of the Week Maps

Today Thursday

Saturday

Sound Maps

Via Music of Sound

Via Merle Patchett

Wellington Calling

New Orleans Soundmap

More Psychogeography

Links to a variety of apps and projects that use aspects of psychogeography can be found here.

Wordle, Word Maps and Barmaids

There are many of examples of word maps to be found and I mentioned Paula Scher after a tip off and Merrill Shatzman to name just two and there are many ways to construct a word map. Wordle is one way to generate a word map or maybe better described as a word cloud, but you can enter text or link to a website to generate your map based on the words and how often they appear, so the more often they appear the big they are. I wanted to make on using a list of Wellington street names, but have not found a good source yet. But I did find a list of registered barmaids in Wellington from 1913, I did not no that barmaids needed to register and secondly how many there were. The image below is just the a - g surnames, I plan to look at how to combine it with a map of Wellington later.

Mrs L Lahman, barmaid at the Grand Hotel, Wellington. Dominion post (Newspaper) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers. Ref: EP/1963/0163-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22696157

Merrill Shatzman

Marjolijn Boterenbrood

Marjolijn Boterenbrood is a Dutch artist with lots of interesting images on her website, there is some text in english but not a great deal and my dutch is a little rusty, but the images on their own are worth looking at. Some more information here.

New Zealand Mapping

I haven't found much about Maori maps and it seems that most mapping was oral and the a few examples that have been drawn, where then copied by someone else. More information about early New Zealand mapping can be found here.

Map of New Zealand. Barnes, L A W, fl 1875 : Log book of a Pacific tour aboard HMS Minotaur, HMS Pearl and HMS Sappho. Ref: MSY-6144-153a. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22881887.

Maori place names map, limited number of names on this map

Image from NZ History Online

Maori place names of Banks Peninsula

Image from Christchurch City Libraries

Reproduction of a reproduction of a chalk map, I think that's right?

Image from Otago University

Christian Nold - Emotion Mapping

Stockport Emotion Map

Christian Nold designed a simple device to monitor the wearer's emotional arousal and use the data to plot various points for example the subject might get to a busy road crossing and then get anxious about getting to the other side. It is better to look at the maps to get how they work. He also has website here with lots more infomation and projects.

Playing Around

Playing around with Google Maps and finding places in Wellington and overlaying maps from places named the same. I lived in Wilton in Wellington last year so made a map combining Wilton in Wellington with Wilton in Alabama and Wilton in Wiltshire as well as a map of Wellington overlaid with a map of Wellington in Somerset, UK. I could be playing around for years doing this, but it does show up how settlers chose to name places and ignoring the indigenous peoples names of places, which often provide a more descriptive view or connected with a person or event.

3 x Wilton

Wellington NZ Wellington UK

Wellington over Wellington

Mappa Monday

Maps of the days of the week - Last Wednesday and Tuesday

Paula Scher

Paula Scher

Fantasy Maps

A few examples of the many fantasy maps out there.

Aerial Mapping

Link to BBC article on aerial mapping and more information here, might be a good follow on project to work with some of the other Chalkle groups to build our own aerial mapping balloon or we could use one of those flash quadcopters or octocopters.

More Maps

This map, one of her moss maps, is from artist Nina Katchadourian, as well as her interesting maps, she has a range of other projects including repairing broken spider webs, so well worth looking at.

Image via Nina Katchadourian

Dargaville High School

These 'maps' where made by students at Dargaville High School as a way to get them to explore their school environment and to think about different ways to look at something they see everyday. The tasks included searching for a range of colours, single colours, their own alphabet and sounds, it started off fairly slowly but once they started to think about the creative ways they could use it really took off and I ended up having to work with them and thousands of images, but it really helped in looking at their environment afresh.

The soundmap idea was particularly hard as trying to get a group of teenagers quiet for any length of time can be a challenge, but once they got it we produced some good starting points for further development. We were also had a blind student in the class and he was able to help in how listening can help us all relate to the world and gave us an insight in to listening in general.

I am still using sounds as a way to develop soundmaps or soundscapes and a useful resource is freesounds, you can search for freely able sounds and use their maps to explore the world through sound recordings people have uploaded. I am also developing a project using sounds from Wellington and there is more information here.

Psychogeography

Psychogeography is, for me anyway, a means to explore a place, area, city by getting lost or wandering around click here for more information.
I have used some of the ideas of psychogeography when working with school students and communities as a way to explore their local area by setting them some tasks and then combining the resulting information into a map.
Another way psychogeographers have used to discover new places is to use a map of one city to navigate around another, for example using a map of New York to get around Wellington.

Maps - All Shapes and Sizes

Via Strange Maps

Ammassalik Wooden Maps 

Crown Lynn map plates 

Dante's Inferno

Word Map London

Stick Chart 

Animal skin map 

Cake Maps

Map of the Internet

Skull Island

Richard Long - Red Walk

Tape Cassette Map