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Overview
Maps are political. They are also artistic, scientific, and prescriptive: they aim to represent and shape the world.
For Big Maps, a group of Olin students will investigate artistic explorations of mapping and geography. They will work alongside young people from Sisters Unchained, Urbano Project, and Hyde Square Task Force and create geographic data and map-based art pieces that respond to questions around mapping.
All four groups —the young people from Olin, Sisters Unchained, Urbano Project, and Hyde Square Task Force will respond to a series of questions around mapping, space, and geography. These questions can be collectively generated, but for ease I have provided example starting places below. The Olin students will then use the responses to these questions, alongside reading and material from class, to create map-based art pieces that they will present at the ISGM.
What the Olin students are ultimately creating are their own interpretations that are responses to the conversations had with the young people from the community groups (as shown through the answers to the questions). The end goal is to create artwork that responds to these conversations and can serve as an inspirational visual language (and data trove) for the work the young people from Sisters Unchained, Urbano Project, and Hyde Square Task Force will do with Nathalia JMag.
The young people can choose to respond to any or all of these questions, and can add their own questions as well. They can respond by creating a video (no longer than 1 minute), sending in image or drawing, or writing a response (300 words).
- What is your favorite place in the city and why?
- What data do you wish you had about your neighborhood?
- Where do you feel most at home in your city?
- Where does your neighborhood begin and end?
- What makes you feel like you are at home?
- Where is a place that isn't that far distance-wise but feels very far away from you?
- What places do you wish you could spend more time in?
- What is your favorite map?
- What is something that you wish that you could map?