BEYOND THE MAP
Beyond the Map was a project commissioned by Dorset AONB to take a creative and inclusive approach to community engagement in the Char Valley. It built on the concept of parish mapping, focussing on the process rather than making a specific piece of work. Inspired by Common Ground, the project aimed to create a collective expression of values about how people felt about their local landscape. Common Ground have always placed Local Distinctiveness at the heart of everything they do. They explain this…
“Distinctiveness is about particularity in the buildings and land shapes, the brooks and birds, trees and cheeses, places of worship and pieces of literature. It is about history and nature jostling with each other, layers and fragments, old and new. The ephemeral and invisible are important too: customs, dialects, celebrations, names, recipes, spoken history, myths, legends and symbols”
Travel around the collaborative “map” of prints, words, images, stories and sounds. Zoom in and move around the map, clicking on place markers to reveal the artworks, videos and more! The images below show a preview of the final interactive map and kits that I made and distributed to local communities to get feedback on what people valued about the landscape they lived in. The workshops I ran in village halls and with Charmouth primary used collagraph, cyanotype and monoprint processes.
2021
