Livingmaps Network

28/07/2026

📍The first in a series of snapshots from the latest edition of Livingmaps Network Review Issue 19, our online journal.

📍In 'Living within a Broken System', Merrydith Russell presents her research working with displaced people in refugee communities in Plymouth, Devon. Central to this study is the use of mapping as a method, not just as a tool for spatial analysis, but as a critical, feminist practice of uncovering hidden infrastructures, power relations, and lived experiences.

📍The map-making becomes a means of illuminating how displaced individuals navigate and negotiate homemaking within oppressive systems, situating personal geographies within broader structures of exclusion and control.
Read it here! 👇
https://www.livingmaps.org/merrydith-ruseell-wp-19

20/07/2026

📌 We are delighted to share the news that the Summer Edition of our Journal - Livingmaps Review Issue 19 is now online!
📌 With special thanks to all our contributors, Merrydith Russell, Will Garrett-Petts, Drew Mackie, Clare Qualmann and Athanasia Tziona.
Enjoy!

(image source: 𝑀𝑦 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑝 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 2026, Jayse Heer-Matonovich)

08/07/2026

📌 This year marks the 250th anniversary of the United States. Under the banners of “Freedom 250”, the Trump Administration has been using the anniversary to advance a view of the past that erases the histories of racism, enslavement, exploitation, and settler-colonial dispossession on which the nation was built.

📌 This Interactive Map: The Other 250: is a counter-atlas of the country told through the names on its map. Created in collaboration with geographers, historians, Indigenous knowledge-holders, and community organisers, it shows how place-names shape past and present struggles over land, power, and belonging, and holds the histories that official commemoration works to sanitise or suppress.

Explore the map here 👇👇
wordsaremonuments.org/the-other-250/?

The Other 250 is a counter-atlas of place-names, contested landscapes, and living struggles, launching in the lead-up to the United States’ 250th anniversary.

01/07/2026

David Cross from the University of the Arts London opened the 2026 Livingmaps Network conference with an inspirational keynote introduction to our theme of "Shared Earth Unequal Burdens: Living Maps for Environmental Justice", in which he powerfully illustrated the impact of the crisis on our planet and its people in a wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated presentation. Asking whether the systematic spatial aspects of mapping could support the building of common cause.

For those of you who may have missed it, David has made his presentation available on YouTube. It is very good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvIFB_Uzb-s

In this presentation for the Living Maps Network conference, I ask ...

28/06/2026

Tickets are now available for this beautiful soundmapping Fundraiser for Gaza in London and online on 19th July with poet Shad Alnaami, Ambient Gaza, and textile artist Rim Irscheid.
Booking and more information here 👇
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mapping-resistance-an-evening-of-collective-listening-to-gazan-voices-tickets-1992085675882

28/06/2026

Livingmaps Network Conference is over for another year - two days of beautiful artworks and mapworks, fascinating talks, and engaging 'hands-on' workshops. Thank you to all who joined us in person and online.
Don't forget to join our mailing list for news of forthcoming events and the Journal!! Find the link here 👇
https://bit.ly/4gat8CC

23/06/2026

Livingmaps Network Conference Heatwave update - we are going ahead with our conference and hope you will join us either in person at Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU or online
Find our full programme and link to Eventbrite for ticket booking here 👇👇👇👇
https://www.livingmaps.org/livingmaps-conference-2026

21/06/2026

Livingmaps Network 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: 𝟐𝟓-𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞
☀️As we celebrate the Midsummer Solstice, we invite you to join Barbara Brayshay and artist Jina Lee for 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗸 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, an afternoon workshop of radical hope, creativity, storytelling, and collective visioning to map and reimagine collaborative, regenerative futures. 🌞
Find the full conference programme and book your tickets here!
https://www.livingmaps.org/livingmaps-conference-2026

19/06/2026

Livingmaps Network 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: 𝟮𝟱𝘁𝗵-𝟮𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲
📌 We are delighted to be welcoming Babak Fakhamzadeh, joining us on Day 2 of our conference for 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗾𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿, a research and storytelling project examining the Dutch colonial occupation of northeastern Brazil (1630–1654) through mapping, narrative reconstruction, and critical historiography.
📌 The project traces how colonial power affected the lived environment through plantation economies, military infrastructure, forced labour, and the extraction of land, resources, and knowledge. By revisiting archival material, historical maps, and overlooked narratives, the project reveals the violence embedded in present-day assumptions and structures, colonial landscapes and the systems that shaped them.
📌 Find our full programme and Eventbrite for booking tickets here 👇
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shared-earth-unequal-burdens-living-maps-for-environmental-justice-tickets-1984123760579?aff=erelexpmlt

17/06/2026

📌📌 Livingmaps Network 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
JUST ONE WEEK TO GO!!
We are delighted to be welcoming Peter Van Dam, Professor of Dutch History at the University of Amsterdam / Universiteit van Amsterdam, and Marlies van Opheusden, whose talk, "Making a sense of place: The contested nature of the Lutkemeer polder (1863-1970)," will be featured on the second day of our event.
Find us at Senate House, Mallet Street, London.
You can book your ticket here: 👇
📌 https://bit.ly/4eluWXT