Please circulate. Topic: Drawing maps, imagined landscapes and pandemic storytelling Time: Jul 22, 2020 06:30 PM London Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88154010458?pwd=NFpCLzJRcTVCZEFWbEtWTjBpSmdFZz09 Meeting ID: 881 5401 0458 Password: mapsalive Almost overnight our landscapes were transformed as social distancing and stay at home rules were enforced. Confined to our homes, our imaginations have been our best ally to explore other places real or imagined. Drawing, or perhaps more broadly speaking – mark making, is a tool that we can use to enter into other spaces beyond the here and now, perhaps into memories or imaginations of a possible future or as a form of visually representing emotional states. Quarantine has highlighted spatial inequalities and poses questions about our socio-political reality, prompting us to think of alternative arrangements. Dreaming about a different world outside can give us comfort but can also help us clarify how we would like the world to be. This Livingmaps Network meet up focusses on the role of drawing maps as a form of storytelling about places. We will hear from Sol Perez-Martinez and Kimbal Bumstead about drawing as an imaginative act and about the Livingmaps open call during the lockdown - “Dreaming of a post Covid world”.. We will hear from some of the people that submitted works and discover some of the different ways in which people have interpreted the theme through drawing and collage. Following this, Joel Seath will discuss children’s interpretations of mapping the pandemic with a project he has been doing with a group of year 5 students. Speakers: Kimbal Bumstead is a visual artist whose works span from abstract paintings to participatory performance art with a key focus on maps and storytelling. Sol Perez-Martinez, is a Latin-American architect, researcher and curator. Her work focuses on public engagement in architecture and the intersection between built environment, pedagogy and politics. Joel Seath has worked as a playworker for around thirty years, and currently supports the school lives of a group of Yr 5/6 children in Hampshire. He has been variously published in play and playwork literature and is a keen advocate of children’s right to play. Phil Cohen Emeritus Professor Centre for Cultural Studies Research University of East London Research Fellow The Young Foundation Website and blog : www.philcohenworks.com<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philcohenworks.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cacope%40uwm.edu%7C574989357fce475c561a08d822074ada%7C0bca7ac3fcb64efd89eb6de97603cf21%7C1%7C0%7C637296761995159869&sdata=f8t076NqFzeA4HSuWMZiu%2BFoBdWy04%2Ff56z3MaznIw8%3D&reserved=0> Research Director: Livingmaps Network www.livingmaps.org.uk<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livingmaps.org.uk%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cacope%40uwm.edu%7C574989357fce475c561a08d822074ada%7C0bca7ac3fcb64efd89eb6de97603cf21%7C1%7C0%7C637296761995159869&sdata=nOHVsgpkVQ3XKp0bIWQQ9bsB0x0W1IFFaKBrdqCD438%3D&reserved=0> Editor at large Livingmaps Review www.livingmaps.review<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livingmaps.review%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cacope%40uwm.edu%7C574989357fce475c561a08d822074ada%7C0bca7ac3fcb64efd89eb6de97603cf21%7C1%7C0%7C637296761995169816&sdata=gZCHeY29%2FvZiSwD8Rb77Dwd7hCu5KgBAgXmhEr%2Bt2bk%3D&reserved=0> LIVINGMAPS is a network of academics, artists and activists concerned to develop a creative and critical approach to social mapping. Latest publications : Political Mindfulness: Fresh Perspectives on a Multiple Crisis Edited by Phil Cohen (with Ruth Lister, Valerie Walkerdine, Dick Pountain,Angela McRobbie and Mike Rustin) Compass June 2020 https://www.compassonline.org.uk/publications/political-mindfulness-fresh-perspectives-on-multiple-crises/<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.compassonline.org.uk%2Fpublications%2Fpolitical-mindfulness-fresh-perspectives-on-multiple-crises%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cacope%40uwm.edu%7C574989357fce475c561a08d822074ada%7C0bca7ac3fcb64efd89eb6de97603cf21%7C1%7C0%7C637296761995169816&sdata=Y%2FoAe%2FJa9hgws1QA5Aa2dw%2BF5p%2BjWfL2KuJ8KcxTu1M%3D&reserved=0> There must be some way out of Here:Mapping the pandemic from Left Field Compass June 2020 New Directions in Radical Cartography, or why the map is not the territory? (co-edited with Mike Duggan) Rowman and Littlefield 2021 __._,_.___,_._,___