The Learned Pig

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Tag: maps

  • Cartographies of the Imagination

    Cartographies of the Imagination

    Cartographies of the Imagination explores the outer limits of what a map can be, interrogating the bit of lost land that falls between the pages of an atlas, journeying to places known, unknown, forgotten and fictional.         INTRODUCTION To map a place is to create a whole new one. Maps may begin…

  • Making maps in the backwoods

    Making maps in the backwoods

    Melanie Viets speaks to influential artist Jussi Kivi about mapping hidden histories in the landscapes around (and under) Helsinki and beyond.

  • + Other Cartographies

    + Other Cartographies

    Kiara Marina Firpi Carrión reveals the motivations behind + Other Cartographies, a research project to highlight work by women map-makers.

  • Sing the Gloaming

    Sing the Gloaming

    An interview with Professor Simon Kirby and artist/ musicians Tommy Perman and Rob St. John discussing their ongoing collaborative project, Sing the Gloaming.

  • Stories from The Whale Road

    Stories from The Whale Road

    A journey from Iceland across to the Faroe Islands and finally to Sweden, by illustrator, artist and author Helen Cann.

  • The History of Cartography

    The History of Cartography

    An in-depth interview with Matthew H. Edney and Mary Sponberg Pedley, editors of Volume IV of The History of Cartography.

  • Between Two Memories

    Between Two Memories

    Artist Ian Giles uncovers hidden queer histories as part of New Geographies, a three-year project to create a new map of the East of England.

  • Dream of the River

    Dream of the River

    “I have a story to tell you and it has two characters, the river, and the salmon.” New writing, maps and sketches by California-based poet and painter Obi Kaufmann.

  • Mapping Legacies of British Slave-Ownership

    Mapping Legacies of British Slave-Ownership

    Discussing the power of maps with Rachel Lang, chief administrator and researcher at The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College of London.

  • Placemaps

    Placemaps

    Daegan Miller, author of This Radical Land, on moving house, making maps, and finding home – from Massachusetts to Wisconsin to New York and back again.

  • Absence of Evidence

    Absence of Evidence

    A new photographic collaboration between art duo Henry/Bragg and former street sex workers in Hull honouring 14 of their fellow workers who have died.