Today, I met with the students at the South Vancouver Youth Centre to begin a month-long engagement, the results of which will contribute to the soundscape component of the We Are Here community map. To spark the students’ imaginations about what maps can be used to represent, they were asked to map (on paper or on their own hands) anything in their daily lives that they wanted to represent. Below, are the incredible examples of their work which came out of this exercise. These include a map of one of the student’s faces; a walking route in Richmond which charts the spots where a particular dog typically “relieves” himself; and a hand tattoo of one student’s daily routes to her school, library and boyfriend’s place. I look forward to returning to work with these creative teens, to begin our walking and biking tours to record the soundscapes of their neighborhood.
