More-than-human mappings - Livingmaps Network Conference 24-26th April 2025

Stewart House, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Tickets available: HERE

Ideas about the ‘more-than-human’ have developed extensively over the past two decades, despite their longer histories, in various disciplines that have challenged the dissociation of humans from other species and things. This has attracted the attention of artists, activists, academics, policymakers and others. Many now agree that decentring the human is essential if we are to meet the pressing challenges of our world, in both local and global contexts.

Yet, only a small fraction of this work has used mapping practices to tell more-than-human stories, histories and practices, or used mapping to engage wider audiences with these issues. We believe that the time has come to gather together the threads of more-than-human mappings into a special event, to share our knowledge and ideas, to exchange good practice, and inspire each other. The conference will explore more-than-human ways of thinking about maps and of doing mapping; maps of the more-than-human; or embodied processes of mapping that attend to non-representational ideas of liveliness.

The programme includes talks, workshops/walks (including two offsite on Saturday 26th)*, and an exhibition/drinks reception on the evening of Thursday 24th**.

The conference takes place at Stewart House, Senate House, which is an accessible venue. Please contact us at tickets@livingmaps.org.uk if you have accessibility, or any other requirements.

Teas and coffees will be provided (but not lunch).

* Workshops and walks are subject to a maximum capacity. Sign-up sheets for workshops/walks 24th-25th will be made available before the conference. Please register now for workshops/walks on 26th on the Eventbrite tickets page (main conference registration is not required to register for Saturday events, but Edible City is by donation; suggested £10).

** If you would like to attend the Thursday evening exhibition and drinks reception please ensure you select this as an additional option at checkout (£5).

Please note that you do not need to purchase any tickets if you are presenting work or leading a workshop that has been accepted for the conference programme.

Day 1: 24th April

09:00-9:15 Welcome 

09:15-10:45 Keynote

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-12:40 Presentations

Kimbal Bumstead and Sana Murrani Countering Place Wounding Through More-Than-Human Mappings of Objects and Places of Trauma: The Ruptured Yazidi Atlas

Richard A Carter Lines / Waves / Volumes—Mapping Agency across Land, Sea, and Air

Katerina Stavridi ‘Dog walk-alongs’ as method: mapping multispecies sensory geographies

Dani Salvadori Ways of Mapping: site, non-site and off-site

Ferne Edwards Putting bees on the urban map: Exploring dimensions of more-than-human mappings

12:40-13:30 Lunch (not provided)

13:30-15:10 Workshops

Charline Lalanne Worlding our environment, a collective experience

Saleha Sapra and Anupriya (City Sabha) People's Place Inventory - A tool to map social change in communities

Lissie Carlile More-Than-Human Entanglement Mapping in the Anyone & Anywhere Field Zine for Guiding Rewilding

15:10-15:30 Break

15:30-17:10 Workshops

Rachel Kennedy Mapping bodies and circumnavigating toxicity

Bunga Siagian Polyphonic Assemblage

18:00-20:00 Exhibition Evening

Wilson Kiiza (Mpeehu za Bugungu) Mpeehu za Bugungu | Ben Drusinsky NolliGAN | Milena Metalkova-Markova, Kremena Dimitrova, Antonela Karapandzeva, Ana Stanojevic, Boris Rancev, Aleksander Mladenov, Musab Ak, Sam Brookes More-than-Human Dwelling as a Palimpsest of Co-existence | Lara Band In the midst of rich meadows / it was perfectly clear / I walked with company: mapping with at Middlesex Filter Beds Nature Reserve, Hackney, East London | Claire Reddleman Ginkgos Project | Forestscapes Listening Lab Forestscapes, Public Data Lab (KCL) | Charlotte Dorn Mapping the firebug through woodcut | Perdita Phillips Mapping extraction: woodlines and dust | Lisa Biletska Medea in the Garden of the Hesperides | Helen Cann Echolocation | Ana Lucia Camphora Tensions and fluidity in more-than-human encounters | Jin-Kyu Jung & Ted Hiebert What is it like to be a bat? on “bat-like” places and imaginary geographies

Day 2: 25th April

09:00-10:40 Presentations

Udi Mandel Hala: weaving cosmopolitical cartographies

Katharina Scheller Design Matters: Reimagining the Cartographic Visualisation of Biodiversity

Daniel Coombes Mapping-to-Nature

Tobias Etienne-Greenwood Wind and historicity in Mapuche communities in Mendoza, Argentina

Joanna Boehnert Mapping Ecologies of Mind: #1 Epistemological Error and #2 Extended Mind

09:00-10:40 workshop

Gabrielle Stoddard & Thea Lucia Listening at the Edge of the Staff Lines

10:40-11:00 Break

11:00-12:40 Presentations

Joanna Boehnert Mapping Ecologies of Mind: #1 Epistemological Error and #2 Extended Mind

Laure de Tymowski (she/her) Mapping the River Poddle in Dublin: From Mapping to 'Walking With'

Jennifer Atchison Mapping with Country; more-than-human methods for cultural landscape mapping

11:00-12:40 workshop

Heather Miles Let’s map Russell Square: Mapping as a distinctive sociomaterial process of learning

12:40-13:30 Lunch (not provided)

13:30-15:10 Presentations

Jin-Kyu Jung & Ted Hiebert More-than-human psychogeography on “bat-like” places and imaginary geographies

Serena Dambrosio and Nicolás Díaz To Map an Intricate Dance of Heat

13:30-15:10 workshop

Jina Lee Drawing the Unseen_Perspectives and Mapping

15:10-15:30 Break

15:30-17:10 Book Launch

Savyasachi Anju Prabir and Mike Duggan Book Panel: Charting New Terrains: Counter Mapping in India

15:30-17:10 workshop

William Crosby The more-than-human sound-walk: foot as sonic interlocutor

17:10-17:30 Closing Remarks

Day 3: 26th April

10:00-11:30 offsite workshop

Clare Qualmann Edible city: foraging, gleaning, growing | Hackney, East London

15:00-17:00 offsite workshop

Charmaine Brown Gentrification walking tour of Peckham | South London

Livingmaps Network is a volunteer-run organisation and was established in 2013 to develop a network of researchers, community activists, artists and others with a common interest in the use of countermapping for social change, public engagement, critical debate and creative forms of community campaigning.

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