WLMR: Walk-See-Create: Our final Interactive Google Map

Here's the final collaborative Google Map developed by students and staff at the University. this map has both sketch pictures embedded, photographs in situ and examples of video here too.

WLMR: Hello!

Hello and welcome! Our aim is to help record and document some of the spacial and locative projects that students and staff are involved with at the University of Worcester. We also plan to add related posts, news and on occasions opportunities to participate in projects.

Walk, See, Create: Exploring Worcester
Monday 23rd January, 2017

The aim of this workshop is to explore Worcester, recording what we see during the walk. Afterwards we will create an interactive Google map of the walked route, showing the photos, drawings and films that we made and where we created them. How and what you record is up to you, we hope that at the end of the walk that participants will have generated a range of visual ‘things’, which act as a record of your walk and show the different details of the city. 

The activity is inspired in part by the idea that when you walk you being to think and process. This isn't a new idea and generations of thinkers and writers have commented on it over the years.. Here's two examples:

"I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs."

Jean Jacques Rousseau, 18th Century Swiss Philosopher says in his 'Confessions'

And more directly for this activity:

“Unfold a streetmap... place a glass, rim-down anywhere on the map and draw round it’s edge. Pick up the map, go out into the city and walk the circle... Catch the textual run off the streets; the graffiti, the litter, the snatches of conversation... Watch for visual rhymes, coincidences, family resemblances, the changing mood of the street. Complete the circle and the record ends.”

Robert Macfarlane is a British author who writes about landscapes – both urban and countryside. From an article he wrote called “A Road of One’s Own”

Here's a couple of hardcopy examples of previous walks with pictures and sketches included.

Recording Worcester City Centre (Click to enlarge)

Recording the town of Tenbury Wells (Click to enlarge)

Here's the Worcester Example Transferred to an Interactive Google Map.

WRML - Sample Interactive Google Map For Workshop

Here's the embedded example of the simple sample map that you will have created if you followed the step by step 'how to' instruction guide that we've created.