Editorial Team
Mike Duggan
Editor-in-Chief
Mike works in the Digital Humanities Department at King's College London. He holds a PhD in Cultural Geography from Royal Holloway University of London, working in partnership with the Ordnance Survey on studying everyday digital mapping practices. His research is primarily interested in the tensions and contradictions that emerge when we examine how digital society and technology is theorised alongside how everyday life is lived. This has manifested in research about digital mapping practices, counter and radical cartography, and the lived experiences of the sharing economy
Email: michael.duggan@kcl.ac.uk
Phil Cohen
Editor-at-Large
Phil is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London. Phil started using mapping methods in working with young people in East London about their sense of place, identity and belonging. His publications include Rethinking the Youth Question (1990), London’s Turning: the making of Thames Gateway (2006), On the Wrong Side of the Track: East London and the Post-Olympics (2013), London 2012 and the Post Olympic City (2017) and Archive That, Comrade: Left Legacies and the counter culture of remembrance (2018). www.philcohenworks.com
Email: pcohen763@hotmail.co.uk
Dr. Barbara Brayshay
Waypoints
Barbara is a Director of Living Maps and editor of the Waypoints section of Living Maps Review. With an academic background in geography and bioarchaeology, she now works as an independent researcher specialising in mapping as a tool for participatory action research. Barbara also works with the Festival Research Group and Guerilla Archaeology an outreach initiative based in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at the University of Cardiff, delivering creative events at UK music festivals, combining her specialist knowledge of archaeological science with her love of electronic dance music, art and public engagement. Her recent research explores the impact of COVID-19 on festival-goers experiencing the loss of live events and their response to virtual alternatives.
Email: barbara.brayshay@gmail.com
Debbie Kent
Mapworks
Debbie makes work around walking, sound and the city. She is half of a collaboration called the Demolition Project (with Russian artist Alisa Oleva) which has made site-responsive walks and works for festivals and galleries in Ekaterinburg, Moscow, Krasnodar, Vilnius, Berlin, Belgrade, London, Leicester, Manchester and Leeds. She is researching the soundscapes of regeneration in Blackwall and Silvertown for a PhD at Goldsmiths and is a member of the Livingmaps team working on the Citizens Atlas of London.
Email: dejakay@gmail.com
Blake Morris
Lines of Desire
Blake is a walking artist, independent scholar and research impact specialist based in New York City. His artistic work and scholarly research focus on inviting people to walk together, often at a distance through the use of digital tools. Projects have included British Summer Time, an ongoing series of global sunrise walks and the Arts Council England funded project This is not a Slog, for which he created three site-specific walks for Ovalhouse Theatre (London). His recent book, Walking Networks: The Development of an Artistic Medium (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2020) offers an overview of the current field of walking art in the United Kingdom and a definition for the medium. His writing can also be found in journals such as Green Letters: Studies in Eco-Criticism, the International Journal of Tourism Cities, and Claire Hind and Clare Qualmann s Ways to Wander publications (Axminster: Triarchy Press).
Email: blakemwalks@gmail.com
Clare Qualmann
Lines of Desire
Clare is an artist/researcher with an interdisciplinary performance oriented practice. From a background in the visual arts her work engages a range of participatory methods, and a range of media to explore the politics and potentials of everyday life. From 2012 - 2015 she led an AHRC funded project to develop the Walking Artists Network, an international online directory for the use of walking in creative practice. Her own projects use walking as process, method and outcome for instigating and investigating exchanges between people and places. Recent commissions include walkwalkwalk: stories from the Bethnal Green archive (2010) a permanent installation of architectural text-works in Bethnal Green Old Town Hall.
Email: c.qualmann@uel.ac.uk
Giulia Carones
Copy-Editor
After the Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Philosophy and Politics at the University of Stirling, UK, Giulia completed her Master of Science in Cultural Anthropology: Sustainable Citizenship at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands. During her studies, she has acquired and refined a drive for transformational research with an impact on cities and how city dwellers perceive them. Alongside the academic commitments, she has grown a deep interest for issues affecting life in urban environments, with a special attention to an ethnographic approach for research and dialogue, especially since experiencing the role of activist anthropologist. At present, she is based in Berlin, collaborating with various projects and initiatives related to sustainability and participatory urban processes.
Email: giulia.carones@gmail.com