Fantasy Maps

A few examples of the many fantasy maps out there.

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.

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.