THE MAP ROOM (is open...) at 56a InfoshopWEDS 3-7pm THUR 2-8pm FRID 3-7pm SAT 2-6pm

What on earth is going on? Well, The Map Room (is open...) is a project oriented towards the future. It's an ongoing collection of hand-drawn maps of anywhere! We have loads of imaginative mappings and walks. We have loads of hand-crafted maps and charts of actual places and imagined ones too. We are actively collecting maps and walks. SO SEND US YOUR STUFF!!

We want your maps and walks. For example, we have - a radical history walk thru' downtown Toronto; a Taoist map of the mind; Pensacola beer dumpster map; Tom's ratholes map; Arika Map to her heart; Wild Walworth walk; Italian Autonomia '68-'77 chart; Outcast Island map etc etc..

We hope that this can become a resource for travellers, ruinists, detectives and radicals to the world around us.

Examples from The Map Room (is open...)
· Radical Southwark, a hand-drawn pictorial map of one district of South London detailing numerous accounts of radical activity from 1381 to 2006
· A quickly made hand-drawn map of Sacramento in California depicting public and personal events that shaped the authors life
· A map on a notebook page showing the way to secret Day of the Dead ceremony in remote North Mexico
· An incomplete chart of British Left Wing groups from 1930 til 2006 or an extensive chart of Anti-Psychiatry groups in 70's and 80's London
· An alternative mapping of Venice from 2001, of London from 2004, of Palestine/Israel from 1990
· A practical map of our local area showing where edible plants, fruit and flowers may be collected and at what times of the year
· A mapped landscape of the novel 'On The Marble Cliffs' by Ernst Junger
· A map from the large anti-capitalist protest on June 18th 1999 inThe City of London that shows where major financial institutions have their offices. Similar maps for Mayday 2000 and G8 Scotland 2005

Contact:

Chris
The Map Room (is open...)
56a Infoshop, 56 Crampton St London SE17 3AE UK

winterwind(at)hellokitty.com