Constructing Spatial Narratives: Considerations and Practices Across Communities

This panel considers how critical, innovative approaches with GIS draw our attention to new pathways of digital mapping. How can the practice of digital mapping within a critical lens produce new cartographies for spaces of possibility? How can spatial narratives restore the tarnished lineages of cultural geographies obscured from history? The projects represented on this panel are connected through a theoretical grounding that harnesses the power of imagining cultural recovery of landscape as a means of redress from historical obscurity. These projects represent a form of social justice that responds to how injustice is identified only through social memory; in this way mapping can contribute as an artifact of cultural restoration and catalyst for further action. link:https://vimeo.com/439454686 Christy Hyman- organizer, panelist Alli Crandell- panelist Sue Bergeron- panelist Jesse Rouse-panelist Shane Lynch- panelist Jamila Moore Pewu-panelist Hilary Green- discussant, Chai