Creative Neighbourhood Mapping Project
(June-July 2019)
Creative Neighbourhood Mapping Project took place over the course of three public workshops hosted at Mount Pleasant Community Centre through Vancouver Park Board's Artists in Communities Program, during a year long residency titled Meeting Places. Through personal storytelling, community exchange, and site-specific exploration, we worked together with community members to assemble a collaborative portrait of the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood.
Each participant took turns being our tour guide, introducing selected landmarks and the stories behind them. The landmarks were diverse and fascinating, including yarn bombing interventions, waterway shrines, secret back room cocktail bars, meaningful trees with medicinal properties, abandoned houses, hidden gardens, traces of a candy factory, and haphazard bird feeders, among many others. We used a Polaroid camera to document our landmarks. These photos, along with participant's written descriptions of the landmarks, were compiled and exhibited on our growing map.
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map photos by Sophia Wolfe