Maps are everywhere around us, ever present to help us navigate both public and personal geographies, or orient ourselves in communal and universal landscapes. But all maps come with an agenda - as much as maps can reveal about a place or idea, maps also have the power to hide or distort truths. A workshop from Black Quantum Futurism in utility and practice of mapping, and ways in which maps have been used to disempower people and communities, and how they can be used as a liberatory and revelatory tools. We will experiment with creating quantum maps, sound maps, housing journey maps, and memory maps.
BQF is the creator of Community Futures Lab based in Sharswood, North Philly.
North Philly Peace Park is an open, fence-free, charitable, intergenerational, neighborhood managed ecology campus championing food, education and community.