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.

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

Welcome

I have set this blog up as a place to put links and information about mapping that might be of interest to those attending my Chalkle workshop on creative mapping.

Mapping is huge subject and the idea for the workshops is to explore some creative ways to make maps and what we might do with the maps we make for example collaborating on an Atlas of Wellington.

Please feel free to let me know of your own interests or ideas and we can use them as part of the workshops.