Our thanks to LivingMaps and Heather Miles for an update on the “More-than-Human” mapping conference and the “Walking and Memory Mapping” workshop with Canadian artist Marlene Creates. Both events are scheduled for late April. Heather provides us with the following details:
Dear Livingmaps subscribers,
We have two upcoming events this Spring: the Livingmaps More-than-Human Mappings conference (main conference 24th-25th April, with additional ‘out of hours’ evening activities and on Saturday 26th) and Walking and Memory Mapping with artist Marlene Creates on 30th April.
The More-than-Human Mappings conference program is now published on our website:
Tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-than-human-mappings-livingmaps-network-conference-2025-tickets-1151378085849
For further details, please see the conference program on our website, but as a taster, we have:
Presentations
Countering Place Wounding Through More-Than-Human Mappings of Objects and Places of Trauma: The Ruptured Yazidi Atlas | Lines / Waves / Volumes—Mapping Agency across Land, Sea, and Air | ‘Dog walk-alongs’ as method: mapping multispecies sensory geographies | Ways of Mapping: site, non-site and off-site | Putting bees on the urban map: Exploring dimensions of more-than-human mappings | Hala: weaving cosmopolitical cartographies | Design Matters: Reimagining the Cartographic Visualisation of Biodiversity | Mapping-to-Nature | Wind and historicity in Mapuche communities in Mendoza, Argentina | Mapping Ecologies of Mind: #1 Epistemological Error and #2 Extended Mind | Mapping the River Poddle in Dublin: From Mapping to ‘Walking With’ | Mapping with Country; more-than-human methods for cultural landscape mapping | More-than-human psychogeography on “bat-like” places and imaginary geographies | To Map an Intricate Dance of Heat | Book Panel: Charting New Terrains: Counter Mapping in India
Workshops/walks
Worlding our environment, a collective experience | People’s Place Inventory: A tool to map social change in communities | More-Than-Human Entanglement Mapping in the Anyone & Anywhere Field Zine for Guiding Rewilding | Mapping bodies and circumnavigating toxicity | Polyphonic Assembly | Listening at the Edge of the Staff Lines | Let’s map Russell Square: Mapping as a distinctive sociomaterial process of learning | Drawing the Unseen_Perspectives and Mapping | Edible city: foraging, gleaning, growing | Gentrification walking tour of Peckham
Exhibition
Mpeehu za Bugungu | NolliGAN | More-than-Human Dwelling as a Palimpsest of Co-existence | In the midst of rich meadows / it was perfectly clear / I walked with company: mapping with at Middlesex Filter Beds Nature Reserve, Hackney, East London | Ginkgos Project | Forestscapes, Public Data Lab (KCL) | Mapping the firebug through woodcut | Mapping extraction: woodlines and dust | Medea in the Garden of the Hesperides | Echolocation | Tensions and fluidity in more-than-human encounters | What is it like to be a bat? on “bat-like” places and imaginary geographies
Then, we look forward to a presentation and workshop on walking and Memory Mapping with artist Marlene Creates on 30th April:
Marlene Creates
Tickets at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-and-memory-mapping-with-artist-marlene-creates-30th-april-2025-tickets-1258347875369
Canadian artist Marlene Creates has used memory mapping in her work since 1986—maps drawn both by her and by others for her. Memory maps are examples of alternative maps, also called participatory maps, counter maps, living maps, deep maps, and even radical maps. Every map tells a story, and alternative maps tell alternative stories.
In this presentation, Marlene will show works done in collaboration with Indigenous Inuit and Innu elders in northern Labrador and her own elderly relatives on the island of Newfoundland. Her most recent work centers on the perceptions of about 200 schoolchildren who came for multidisciplinary guided walks in the 6-acre patch of old-growth boreal forest where she has been living and working since 2002 on the island of Newfoundland/Ktaqmkuk.
Following the talk, Marlene will facilitate a hands-on workshop: Site + Memory = Place: A Memory Map Drawing Workshop guiding participants in drawing their own thematic, layered memory map of a place that is or has been important to them. All materials for the workshops are included.
About the artist: Marlene Creates is a Canadian environmental artist living and working on the island of Newfoundland/Ktaqmkuk. Her work has been presented in over 350 exhibitions and screenings across Canada and internationally. She has received many awards, including a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for “Lifetime Artistic Achievement”; the Order of Newfoundland & Labrador, the province’s highest honor; and an Honorary Doctorate (D. Litt.) from Memorial University of Newfoundland. She says, “Underlying all my work has been an interest in place—not as a geographical location but as a process that involves layers of memory, multiple narratives, ecology, language, politics, emotions, and both scientific and vernacular knowledge.” Marlene Creates acknowledges that she lives and works on the island that is the unceded ancestral homeland of the Beothuk and Mi’kmaq peoples. With her work, she strives to create meaningful relationships between people and place while honoring over 8,000 years of stewardship of the provincial territory by a succession of Indigenous people. www.marlenecreates.ca
Best wishes,
Heather, on behalf of Livingmaps