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Exploring new directions in critical and creative cartography. We use participatory mapping to help communities drive social change. Find us at livingmaps.org.uk

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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 5h
Join Alex Gekker and @mikeduggan4.bsky.social to discuss Alex's new book, Maps as Media www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
📢 📢 @livingmaps.bsky.social We are delighted to share the Summer Edition of our Journal - Livingmaps Review Issue 19 is now online! Enjoy! www.livingmaps.org/issue-19 #maps #maping (image: 𝑀𝑦 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑝 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 2026, Jayse Heer-Matonovich)
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
📌 @livingmaps.bsky.social Conference is over for another year - two wonderful days of artworks, mapworks, fascinating talks, and engaging 'hands-on' workshops making social, racial, and environmental justice visible 📌 Join our mailing list for news of forthcoming events! 👇 bit.ly/4gat8CC
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
@livingmaps.bsky.social 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: 𝟐𝟓-𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐧e As we celebrate the Midsummer Solstice, we invite you to 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗸 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, an afternoon workshop of radical hope, creative mapping and imagining regenerative futures. Full programme & tickets here! www.livingmaps.org/livingmaps-c...
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
@livingmaps.bsky.social Conference 2026: 25-26th June J𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟏 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨! We are delighted to welcome Peter Van Dam and Marlies van Opheusden, who will be presenting "Making a sense of place The contested nature of the Lutkemeer polder (1863-1970)" To join us, find your ticket here👇 bit.ly/4eluWXT
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
@livingmaps.bsky.social 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝟐𝟓𝐭𝐡-𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 Join Saleha Sapra and Tom Cowan for a film and presentation, co-produced as part of the De Abadi: Villagers’ Right to the City project, which highlights the futures that residents of Raota imagine Link for programme and tickets 👇 bit.ly/4eluWXT
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Helena Atteneder @aneleh-redenetta.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
CfP - Maps in/as Media! Together with Pablo Abend @pabend.bsky.social, I am currently editing a Special Issue for GI_Forum Journal entitled “Maps in/as Media – On the Mediated Production of Geographical Knowledge”. More here: www.austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572_0...
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
@livingmaps.bsky.social June 25th/26th 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Highlight! Join artist Kimbal Bumstead for 'Unmapping Space: An Embodied Drawing Workshop to explore the complex relationships between our bodies and the physical/ sonic environments we are in Curious? Book your tickets here 👇 bit.ly/4eluWXT
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@livingmaps.bsky.social Conference 2026 We invite you to come and explore Spatial Elasticity with Ahmed Adham, asking whether, when a place is declared finished, does it truly end. Showcasing in our exhibition and workshop session on 25th June. Curious? Book your Tickets here! bit.ly/4eluWXT
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
@livingmaps.bsky.social Conference 2026 Juliana Mainard-Sardon, Innocent Abubakar and Isabella Rega examine how countermapping can strengthen social resilience, safeguard endangered heritage, and advance environmental justice in the Ilha de Moçambique corridor. Book tickets here 👇 bit.ly/4eluWXT
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
🌍 ✨ 19 days to go until @livingmaps.bsky.social 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲!! 🌍 ✨ On the programme for Day 1, a fascinating Climate Change and Immersive Learning VR Session at Birkbeck, University of London, Immersive Learning Centre🌱🩸 🎟️ Find the full programme and conference tickets here 👇 bit.ly/4eluWXT
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
@livingmaps.bsky.social 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟭: Zarina Ahmad co-director, @wen-uk.bsky.social will join us for 𝗙𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘀 speaking to issues of gender, environmental and social justice. 🔗 Get Tickets & see the full agenda here! 👇 bit.ly/3SnM1Yw #Livingmaps2026 #ClimateJustice #maps
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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
@livingmaps.bsky.social We are excited to see our session, Living Maps of Cultural Landscapes, scheduled for Day 3 at 2.25 pm at this year's RGS-IBG Conference! Hope to see you there! #livingmaps #countermapping #maps #mapping #environmentaljustuce
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📢📢𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐔𝐬 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔! Invite your friends and colleagues to join @livingmaps.bsky.social for 2 fantastic days of talks and explore creative, participatory mapping Book your ticket and share the link for the programme and ticket booking: 👇👇 www.livingmaps.org/livingmaps-c...
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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🔈🗺️ Tickets and Programme Now Available for our next conference,Shared Earth, Unequal Burdens: Living Maps for Environmental Justice. Join us from the 25-26th June in London for two days of talks, workshops, walks and artworks livingmaps.squarespace.com/livingmaps-c...
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Livingmaps Conference 2026 — Livingmaps Network
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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🔈🗺️ Tickets and Programme Now Available for our next conference,Shared Earth, Unequal Burdens: Living Maps for Environmental Justice. Join us from the 25-26th June in London for two days of talks, workshops, walks and artworks livingmaps.squarespace.com/livingmaps-c...
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Livingmaps Conference 2026 — Livingmaps Network
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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🔈🗺️ Tickets and Programme Now Available for our next conference,Shared Earth, Unequal Burdens: Living Maps for Environmental Justice. Join us from the 25-26th June in London for two days of talks, workshops, walks and artworks livingmaps.squarespace.com/livingmaps-c...
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Livingmaps Conference 2026 — Livingmaps Network
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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🔈🗺️ Tickets Now Available for our next conference,Shared Earth, Unequal Burdens: Living Maps for Environmental Justice. Join us from the 25-26th June in London for two days of talks, workshops, walks and artworks www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shared-ear...
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Shared Earth, Unequal Burdens: Living Maps for Environmental Justice
Join us for our Livingmaps Network Conference 2026 to share knowledge and ideas on mapping for environmental justice
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🍀We bring together researchers, artists and activists all with a shared interest in environmental justice and map-making as a tool of resistance in struggles for climate, racial and social justice through which more just and sustainable worlds are imagined and contested.
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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🔈🗺️ Tickets Now Available for our next conference,Shared Earth, Unequal Burdens: Living Maps for Environmental Justice. Join us from the 25-26th June in London for two days of talks, workshops, walks and artworks www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shared-ear...
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Shared Earth, Unequal Burdens: Living Maps for Environmental Justice
Join us for our Livingmaps Network Conference 2026 to share knowledge and ideas on mapping for environmental justice
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
📢 📢 📢 REMINDER!! The @livingmaps.bsky.social Call for Contributions for our 2026 Conference is still open. Submit your abstract for a presentation, to run a workshop or add to our exhibition/installation space ASAP #maps Find everything you need to know here! 👇 www.livingmaps.org/livingmaps-c...
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
@livingmaps.bsky.social We are pleased to open our Call for Contributions for Livingmaps Network 2026 conference. If you are involved in mapping projects or research that explores aspects of environmental justice Find out all you need to know via this link 👇 👇 www.livingmaps.org/livingmaps-c...
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Next @livingmaps.bsky.social 'Mapping Fluid Worlds' online seminar coming up: New Directions: Radical mapmaking in India Savyasachi Anju Prabir Date: 11 mar • 13:00 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-direct...
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New Directions - Savyasachi Anju Prabir
Join us as we discuss the theory & practice of radical mapmaking in India with a film screening of 'Altodi Poltodi (This shore, That shore)'
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
📢📢 @livingmaps.bsky.social invite you to our next online event in our Fluid World Seminar Series for a film screening and discussion of 'Altodi Poltodi (This shore, That shore)' with Savyasachi Anju Prabir, on March 11 at 1.00 pm Uk time www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-direct...
Join Savyasachi Anju Prabir for New Directions: The theory and practice of radical map making in India on 11th March 2026
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
📢 📢 Final Reminder!! Just 2 Days to go to the first of @livingmaps.bsky.social Online 2026 Fluid Worlds Seminars Series: Book a place via the Eventbrite link to join The Waterways Collective to explore multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon migration www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-waterw...
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The Waterways Collective: Multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon
Join us to explore multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon migration and ideas of interconnectedness
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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Livingmaps Review Issue 18 Published! This issue is home to ten contributions from our first conference, held in April 2025, on the theme of more-than-human mapping www.livingmaps.org/issue-18
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Issue 18 — Livingmaps Network
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📢 📢 @livingmaps.bsky.social Just one week to go to our first Online 2026 Fluid Worlds Seminars Series: Book a place via the Eventbrite link to hear about The Waterways Collective, a multidisciplinary mapping of the migration journeys of Atlantic Salmon. Tickets can be booked here: 👇👇
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The Waterways Collective: Multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon
Join us to explore multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon migration and ideas of interconnectedness
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Next online seminar from @livingmaps.bsky.social "The Waterways Collective is a Scotland-based art-science collaboration, currently following Atlantic salmon and their migrations into local landscapes, distant seascapes, multi-species histories, and possible futures." tinyurl.com/mry8zw7u
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The Waterways Collective: Multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon
Join us to explore multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon migration and ideas of interconnectedness
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Derek H. Alderman @derekgeographer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
@nacis.bsky.social @livingmaps.bsky.social Black communities have long used mapping as a tool to challenge, survive, & transcend racism. The Living Black Atlas celebrates these traditions of protest, care & justice. Watch our new video @notebooklm.bsky.social to learn more tiny.utk.edu/LBAshortvideo
1960s civil rights organization SNCC created innovative power-maps to trace the interconnected nature of institutions, companies, and people supporting racial inequality
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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The Indigenous Mapping Collective is a global network of Indigenous mappers that provides Indigenous Peoples, Nations, and organizations with the tools and training to map their lands, share their stories, and decolonize place and space. buff.ly/8laGNaZ #GISDay #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
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Indigenous Maps - Indigenous Mapping Collective
We are now known as the Indigenous Mapping Collective.  The Indigenous Mapping Workshop is only one part of our global Indigenous Mapping Collective. Our goal has always been to give Indigenous…
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Clare Qualmann @cqualmann.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Next up with @livingmaps.bsky.social online seminars, 21st November 10am UK online Tracey Benson will speak on Mapping resilience: Supporting water knowledge networks across geographies tinyurl.com/yjjddmfb #mapping #water #floodmanagement
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Mapping resilience: Supporting water knowledge networks - Tracey Benson
Join us to explore local understandings of water and flood management in south east Queensland and beyond
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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Livingmaps Seminar (online) 21st November Mapping resilience: Supporting water knowledge networks - Tracey Benson www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mapping-re...
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Mapping resilience: Supporting water knowledge networks - Tracey Benson
Join us to explore local understandings of water and flood management in south east Queensland and beyond
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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Come along to see Livingmapper @mikeduggan4.bsky.social chair a panel discussion on the question of 'who controls the map' at @britishlibrary.bsky.social events.bl.uk/events/onlin...
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The Lie of the Land: Who Controls the Map? | British Library
Technologist Ed Parsons, Dr Ollie Ballinger and Dr Pragya Agarwal join cultural geographer Mike Duggan in this panel conversation to explore how maps and c
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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
For Manchester Livingmappers: Claire Reddleman to speak about 'The blue dot and the GPS selfie: the critique of the cartographic self' www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-blue-d...
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The blue dot and the GPS selfie: the critique of the cartographic self
Dr Claire Reddleman, University of Manchester
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
@livingmaps.bsky.social Director @mikeduggan4.bsky.social explores the map worlds of Ursula le Guin on display in this fascinating exhibition at the AA Gallery, 36 Bedford Square, WC1B 3ES until December 6th
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Clare Qualmann @cqualmann.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
@livingmaps.bsky.social seminar series 'Mapping Fluid Worlds' starts Weds Oct 29th 6-7pm with a talk on 'The Flood Necklace' by Anne-Laure Fréant, a data-object of all recorded flood events of the Loire River in the city Orléans, spanning 1800-2003. Tix here: shorturl.at/mZh8A #rivers #maps #data
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The Flood Necklace - Anne-Laure Fréant
Join us in the first event of our Mapping Fluid Worlds Series to explore how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 22/10/2025
This fascinating show offers visitors a deeper sense of Le Guin’s maps as world-making and storytelling devices.
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The maps of Ursula K Le Guin reveal a fascinating insight into world-building in fantasy fiction
This fascinating show offers visitors a deeper sense of Le Guin’s maps as world-making and storytelling devices.
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Starting this month, another fascinating seminar series from @livingmaps.bsky.social: 'Mapping Fluid Worlds'. 'The Flood Necklace: an exploration of how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history' - Anne-Laure Fréant. 29th October, 6pm UK, Online: Booking: tinyurl.com/4xc65nnv
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The Flood Necklace - Anne-Laure Fréant
Join us in the first event of our Mapping Fluid Worlds Series to explore how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history
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Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Many feelings: joy, gratitude, fear, excitement as we approach pub day for #TheFeministArtOfWalking @plutopress.bsky.social The final preview is Juno Books in Sheffield on Saturday, we launch on Monday then the tour continues next week, last chance to pre-order: www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
@livingmaps.bsky.social Invite you to join us for our first Autumn 2025 Seminar Series, Mapping Fluid Worlds. In which Anne-Laure Fréant explores how data-sculpture can convey a river’s history, and questions how we store, share, and remember environmental histories. 👇👇 #maps #environmentalhistory
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The Flood Necklace - Anne-Laure Fréant
Join us in the first event of our Mapping Fluid Worlds Series to explore how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history
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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Interested in creating more inclusive maps? Join us for a hands-on workshop on the 18th October to learn about and practice inclusive mapping www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusive-...
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Inclusive Mapping Workshop: Creating a Design Brief
Join us for a hands-on workshop to learn about and practice inclusive mapping
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
@livingmaps.bsky.social Earlier this year we had the pleasure of co-facilitating a workshop on creative mapping and health, with colleagues from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. This short video shows some of the fun and creative mapping approaches and ideas we were exploring youtu.be/oqmMDoLr2Pk
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What Does a Map of our Health Look Like?
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Congratulations to @livingmaps.bsky.social authors Kimbal Bumstead and Sana Murrani, and researchers from Yazda, for their new publication: The Ruptured Atlas. Story Mapping with Survivors of the Genocide in Iraq. Link to the paper: LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series here: lnkd.in/eyHX8Bjq
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Progress in Human Geography @proghumgeog.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
🗺️ New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🗺️ 'Counter-mapping as praxis: Participation, pedagogy, and creativity' by Mike Duggan and Daniel Gutiérrez-Ujaque journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @mikeduggan4.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social @udl.cat
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Counter-mapping as praxis: Participation, pedagogy, and creativity - Mike Duggan, Daniel Gutiérrez-Ujaque, 2025
Counter-mapping has become central to a wide array of spatial practices across activist, artistic, and academic spaces. This article reconceptualises counter-ma...
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Mike Duggan @mikeduggan4.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
In our new article - ‘Counter-mapping as praxis: participation, pedagogy and creativity’ Daniel Gutierrez-Ujaque and I review the current state of counter-mapping, attempt to go beyond frameworks of participation, and resist the idea that counter-mapping is a universal methodology. DM for a copy
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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
More from Livingmaps Review 17! In Mapworks, Debbie Kent gives focus to the You Are Here maps that populate urban centres. At once, both mundane street furniture and a portal into understanding our location on the earth. www.livingmaps.org/you-are-here...
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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
More from Livingmaps Review 17! In Mapworks, Debbie Kent gives focus to the You Are Here maps that populate urban centres. At once, both mundane street furniture and a portal into understanding our location on the earth. www.livingmaps.org/you-are-here...
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LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Online now in Livingmaps Review 17: Waypoints Summer on a GeoBike: Mapping for Recreation with Refugee Youth Map4Rec, a citizen science project with refugee communities in the Twente region of the Netherlands. www.livingmaps.org/waypoints-17
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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
@livingmaps.bsky.social Pleased to announce that Issue 17 of Livingmaps Review is now published! See inside for articles on ‘deep mapping’ practices - walking, talking, photographing, collaging, archiving and working together. Link here 👇👇 www.livingmaps.org/issue-17
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