The Welcome to Finsbury Park project was co-organised with the Transition Finsbury Park association to engage the London N4 local communities with their neighbourhood. It consisted in a 2-month field investigation using videos and was concluded in March 2010 by a workshop and the co-creation of subjective maps (these two activities are documented in the following manuals). Here below is a review of the project and some conclusions, co-written by myself and James Thomson from the Transition Finsbury park association.
Here are step-by-step manuals documenting the workshops that have been organized as part of the Welcome to My Place activities. They are all free and under a Creative Commons License. Please check more details about the licenses inside each document.
These manuals can be used as:
Tools to better understand the identity of a place or an area (in the context of an ethnographic study for example).
This page is basically another way to introduce the activities organised as part of the Welcome to My Place project. They all involved at some point subjective maps. Subjective maps don’t have to be spatially accurate; they should communicate how a territory is perceived. They are a tool of critical cartography, “a set of mapping practices and theoretical critique grounded in critical theory. It differs from classical cartography in that it links geographic knowledge with power, and thus is political. Critical cartographers do not aim to invalidate maps; instead the critique is a careful analysis identifying maps attributes that are taken for granted” (Wikipedia).
