Click here to edit or add to this map!
This is an 'associative map' of Black Creek.
What is it?
Inspired by Andrew Irving's imaginative ethnography work exploring interiority,
I invited participants to find a place within Black Creek where they felt a sense of belonging
or that reminded them of another place and record an 'interior monologue.'
This map proposes a beginning of a kind of 'associative mapping' of these places.
You are invited to participate!
Either by adding from Black Creek or from your own memory, what places are 'linked' in your mind?
What other places do you associate with Black Creek and its inhabitants?
Where at Black Creek did you feel a sense of familiarity? Why?
Add these as 'linked locations' to our associative map with a description! You can edit the map here.
How to explore the map:
Click on markers to see the associated descriptions.
You can also click the white-ish box that looks like a doorway at the top left to see a list of descriptions/tagged locations.
Use the links above to edit the map.
You can also generate walking or driving routes, draw lines among locations, and toggle which layers are visible.
Why?
During my walk in Black Creek, I noticed how I was reminded of so many other familiar places in my life by tiny cues--broken branches reminded me of learning tracking skills on a land project in the Little Applegate Valley; this piece of trash; the way the creek is channeled through cement. I was also really struck by what seems to belong and not belong in the park. In A Different Kind of Ethnography, 'walking anthropologist' Christina Moretti notes that "the density and heterogeneity of urban life renders plazas, street, and parks into arena of conflicts, negotiations, and actions toward social change." How do inhabitants enter into this contested space and relate to it, based on personal histories and memory?