Here are the slides from the mapping lecture. And here’s the This American Life episode on Mapping, in case you want to hear Denis Wood’s interview again, or listen to the other segments: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/110/mapping
John Kriger’s Making Maps blog has lots of great posts, including this post on making a psychogeography map many on symbols in map-making, which may come in handy as you think about representing different elements on the maps you make this week: trees and forests on old Russian maps, landforms, coastlines, snow and ice, combined symbols on maps .
The assignment for the week, as discussed in class, is to make a map to contribute to the class Narrative Atlas of Bennington College. The map can be of anything you’d like, of any part of campus that you choose. It should contain a legend, a key, and symbols. Think of the definition of maps that we discussed in class (maps are spatial, referential, reductive, conventional, indexical or non-indexical, and propositional). Think of how you can expand the boundaries of what a map can be, or typically is, when you make your Bennington map. Think of a story you want to tell about Bennington, and make a map that expresses that story.