About
Livingmaps Review is an online journal which was first published in 2016. It appears twice a year. Each edition contains contributions from a wide range of authors who are interested in critical approaches to mapping and the use of maps for social engagement and action.
Livingmaps Review promotes critical cartography as a form of citizen social science, blurring the distinction between professional and amateur mapmakers. It supports and reports on initiatives in participative and community mapping. It welcomes collaboration between artists, academics and activists.
Livingmaps Review is international in scope, and encourages contributions in English from anywhere in the world. The approach is interdisciplinary, encouraging contributions from geographers, historians, archeologists, ethnographers, sociologists, environmentalists, psychologists, visual artists, designers, writers and computer scientists. Livingmaps Review welcomes contributions which develop a dialogue between disciplines around specific cartographical projects.
Our editorial policy is to avoid academic jargon and to encourage imaginative presentation which experiments with images and text.
Livingmaps Review encourages work by unpublished contributers.
The content is divided into six sections:
Navigations: Long form articles, essays and interventions exploring theoretical or practical aspects of critical cartography
Waypoints: shorter pieces on work in progress
Mapworks: a gallery of maps, historical and contemporary, with interpretative commentary or dialogue
Lines of Desire: short fiction, poetry and autobiography, interviews with theorists and practitioners, annotated performance walks and photography
Reviews: reviews of books, exhibitions and events
Report from Point Nemo: Essays mapping recent adventures into what vios for the author terra incognita