Collaborative Maps of Curiosity
摘要
Collaborative Maps of Curiosity is an invitation to visualize a city to explore its space toward creating alternative experiences for people adapting and integrating in environments. The method has been applied in a range of contexts, including communities of resettled refugees, explorations of public safety after addiction recovery, and the interplay of visual and olfactory experiences with participants living with Alzheimer’s disease. The proposed approach to collaborative map-making is a three-layered, adaptable framework, with each layer corresponding to a different scale of observation explored in a different medium. Beginning with the personal and expanding to the communal, mapping becomes a form of expression. Oscillating between clarity and disorder, the most meaningful aspect of the process lies in the exchange between participants. Initial individual images in one layer respond to neighboring depictions in the next, gradually developing and merging into a final experiential map of the participants’ new city—one that invites them to engage with unfamiliar places and embrace new experiences.