This map is based on interviews with AnneMarie, who, at thirteen years old, was struggling with teen pregnancy and her unexpected success as a young movie actress. AnneMarie’s story was the inspiration for Hannah Weyer’s novel On The Come Up. The map depicts Far Rockaway, the isolated neighborhood on the outskirts of New York City […]
This Land is Your Land
Identifying Objects to Be Considered To shape the dreams and demands of people living in cities yearning for collaborative creative spaces in which to fulfill the needs of their communities, we start by mapping government-owned land and buildings. Our maps show the abundant potential of our shared spaces hiding in plain sight, aching for collaborative […]
Counter Mapping Militant Research
As a collective with diverse ties to the university factory – adjuncts, fellows, freelancers, indebted graduate students, assistant professors under review, unemployed PhDs and caregivers – how do we situate ourselves in relation to increasingly undemocratic and exploitative infrastructures of higher education? How can we confront everyday precarity due to lack of access to housing, […]
