Disorienteering

Calling all Disorienteerers

jennasingleton — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:46:13 -0500

The disorienteering are busy pulling together our materials and our little challenges and now we are looking for victims/participants/mappers/guinea pigs!

We want to do our mapping over the bank holiday weekend - preferably on the Saturday and need some mappers to help us.

The activity will be simple and fun - we'll arm you with some tools and send you out into the park to explore and disorienteer! You will hopefully come back to us with some interesting thoughts, inspirations and daft pictures (cameras supplied!)

If you want to take part - it should only take a few hours (depending on how far you want to wander...) and can be done by individuals or families - all sorts welcome! Please get in touch with us at disorienteering@gmail.com...

Disorienteering

Let's go disorienteering...

jennasingleton — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:53:16 -0500

- Can a map disorientate you?

- What is it to be lost in a place?

- How can the very familiar become disorientating when looked at in a new way?

- How can we reveal the ‘hidden layer’ of potential meanings locked up in space?

- How can some of the more secretive activities that go on in a park be celebrated?

- We orient ourselves using very familiar tried and tested reference points – what if we change these?

- Can we create a map that confuses, excites or even disturbs someone’s experience of the park?

These are some of the central questions of the disorienteering mapping project. Our aim is to get a number of local people who live in the park to conduct a series of activities that helps them/us explore waht some of the hiiden meanings of the park might be for them. Our aim is to create a map which exposes a very different view of the Necklace Park.

Some of the activities we are currently thinking about are - getting people to explore areas where they might do something secretive and capture them using photos, drawings, sound recordings etc. Or getting people to carry out unusual activities in the park...

If you have any comments on the questions posed above - or any ideas for the kinds of hidden meanings or secret activities that might go on in the park then please do psot comments.

Also, if you are someone who would like to be one of our 'mappers' or know soomeone who might be interested then please get in touch....

Disorienteering

Image Gallery

mappingt — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:37:06 -0600

See photos from Ben and Jenna's recent trip into the Necklace Park here

Disorienteering

Monsters of Necklace Park

jennasingleton — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:34:52 -0600

An idea that came to us yesterday whilst we were thinking about our disorienteering map was about monsters. And where would the monsters of necklace park live? what would they look like? what would they eat?
I thought a 'monster map and spotting guide' might be a fun thing for kids - big and small alike - to create.
Any thoughts?

Play Mappers