Livingmaps Network

21/08/2026

Sharing the statement from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) following the death of Professor Jason Arday, who was to have been a keynote speaker at this year's annual conference. So much of his work speaks to the heart of everything we try to do and will remain an inspiration for us.
Rest in Power, Professor Arday 🖤🌹

21/08/2026

🍀Livingmaps Network is now on the Mycelium Map, an aptly named mapping of a growing alliance of UK groups dedicated to building a climate action and nature-centred community. Here, groups can share stories and events, and discover others who share similar interests or geographies.
🍀 Help to grow the mycelium! Put your group on the map too and discover who else is in your neighbourhood.
Find us here:👇👇

We use participatory mapping to help communities drive social change https://www.livingmaps.org non-profit London, United Kingdom (UK), N1 3EY Climate Action Education Media Nature Politics Resilience...

09/08/2026

Livingmaps!
See the ocean in a whole new light!
At the intersects of art and science, artist Lori Hepner transforms seafloor mapping data into ethereal light paintings
https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/lux-in-abyssum-lori-hepner-light-painting-the-seafloor/

07/08/2026

Livingmaps Network skygazers
The solar eclipse will take place on Wednesday 12 August 2026, across the UK. Timings will vary, but maximum coverage will fall shortly after 7 pm. To follow the timings of the sun and moon intersecting to perfection ...
What you need, of course, is a map!
Get your solar specs ready! ☀️ 🌔 🌓 🌒 🌑 🌑
Livingmaps Network

03/08/2026

Next in our snapshots from Livingmaps Review Issue 19, Drew Mackie provides an accessible introduction to network mapping as a tool for social systems analysis. His contribution walks readers through the basic principles of network mapping methodologies, offering practical guidance, including suggestions for mapping software, step-by-step considerations for getting started, and a curated set of questions to guide any network mapping exercise.

Network mapping and social network analysis (SNA) serve as powerful tools for visualising, understanding, and harnessing the dynamics of networks and relationships. By rendering social connections visible, these approaches allow practitioners to identify key actors, map flows of information and resources and uncover structural patterns that might otherwise remain hidden.
https://www.livingmaps.org/new-page

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