Photos from opening night #1

Workshops during the month of October.

Sat Oct 10^th

12:30-2pm: Story Collecting (1)

Want to hear personally the bizarre stories of fellow Melbournians? In this workshop you’ll hit the streets with us armed with sound recorders to collect stories and experiences from strangers.

2-4pm: Craft and 3D stories

Come and make something crafty that represents a unique experience you’ve had in the city. We will have some craft materials for people to use, and feel free to bring in your own materials to contribute if you can. A selection of finished artworks from the workshop will be displayed in the City Library.

Sat Oct 17^th

12-2pm: Ecological Melbourne

Come to write and draw your ideas of an ecologically sustainable Melbourne – past, present, and future! Create the Melbourne that you want.

2-4pm: DIY Mapping

Do you like the map and want to make something like it yourself to map your home or community? Find out how in this informal workshop.

Sat Oct 24^th

12-2pm: Creative Writing and Place

Explore practical techniques for place-based writing.

2:30-4pm Story Collecting (2)

Want to hear personally the bizarre stories of fellow Melbournians? In this workshop you’ll hit the streets with us armed with sound recorders to collect stories and experiences from strangers.

2-4pm: Photography and Place

Explore some ideas for a photographic approach to place and go on a photographic tour of the CBD. BYO camera.

All workshops will start off at the City Library, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Meet at the map upstairs or follow the signs. If you would like to run a workshop yourself please get in contact with us ASAP – we’d love to hear your ideas!

Map Art Prize- $200 cash!

The iMap collective is running a mini-competition during October for the most creative and inspiring map of the CBD area. Entries can be in any medium. The term ‘map’ is open to interpretation but entries must have some spatial basis. All further details including regarding submission etc will be posted on this website shortly – stay tuned, and in the meantime- get creative!

Photos from installation...

Ever tried to hang a 16m map AND get it straight?

iMap opening night!

After a busy few days installing the biggest map of Melbourne CBD we've ever seen, we are excited about our opening, which is only 3 sleeps away! We would love it if you could join us:

Wednesday October 7th
6-8pm

Upstairs exhibition space
City Library
253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.

Be one of the first to contribute to the map! Bring your friends!

For Immediate Release!

The Mapping Room symposium.

Recently we were invited to speak at the Mapping Room symposium. There are a huge range of map-related projects as part of this year's Fringe Festival and Melbourne Festival... as well as the Mapping Room you can catch the Interventionist Guide to Melbourne at Platform and Walk This Way to name only two. Below are the details of what's going on at the Mapping Room...

The Mapping Room: 25th September to the 4th October 2009.
Installation & Symposium.

The Mapping Room is an evolving installation of The Fringe Festival and The World. It charts both the concrete and the fleeting. Using live art, SMS, drawing, video and a lecture series to explore notions of scale, temporality and very human geography.

Head Quarters will be divided into cartographic sections with each section being inhabited by a different artists or company including: En Route by bettybooke, Take Off Your Skin (TOYS) by WELL, Emma Rochester, Robbie Dixon, Kelly Ryall, Analogue Art Map, Lara Thoms, Deadpan and more...

The Mapping Room will be evolving each day from 12-4pm.

On October 2nd from 6.30- 9.30 there will be artists talks and Dr. Fraser Macdonald, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at The University of Melbourne will speak.

You can read more about the Mapping Room at: http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/the-mapping-room