Sensory Sources
- sounds
- colors
- tastes
- smells
- textures
- temperatures
Physical Presences/Sources
- clouds
- plants (berries, grass)
- elements (water, wind, fire, earth)
- animals
- shells, stones
- shapes
- garbage map
- other artistic things/stations
- collected stuff
- traces of human beings
- traces of life
- people
Abstract/Internal Sources
- thoughts
- conversations
- arguments
- emotions/moods
- memories
- music/lyrics
- thoughts
- stories
- imagined stories
- traces from the past
- temporal maps
- traces of time
- “weird things”/unexpected things/other
Assignments:
- explore 1 or 2 themes
- sketch the archive
- make a card for the other person (question, assignment)
- do something else
NOTES:
flash cards. instructions sets or prompts. ASSIGNMENTS for each other.
tool kit. collect materials. paper, materials. sizes?
conduct tests– get people to try it out. in the park…
archive… how will it look? how will we order maps? structure? tent/tarp?
can’t dig? tie to trees? keep out rain?
plastic sheet covers… sleeves?
question for organizers: Are people allowed to collect stuff on the island?
question as we make maps: What are you drawn to? What are you repelled by?
http://mappingweirdstuff.wordpress.com/
From a short course on psychogeography mapping.
Lots of stuff on thinking about taste maps and smell maps… I like the idea of mapping with different senses, and giving up a sense. Blindfold could be part of the kit?
Also a book/site called mythogeography, with some suggestions for “drift”
http://www.mythogeography.com/2009/11/b6.html
