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Mike Duggan
@mikeduggan4.bsky.social
Not the mayor of Detroit
Cultural Geographer
Author of 'All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us
Editor of Livingmaps Review (https://livingmaps.squarespace.com/)
Work: www.mikeduggan.space
Beats: https://mikeduggan.bandcamp.com
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All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us - ‘All Mapped Out is an entertaining adventure for everyone who loves maps, both real and imaginary, analogue and digital’ reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/all-map... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
All Mapped Out | Reaktion Books
Maps go far beyond just showing us where things are located. All Mapped Out is an exploration of how maps impact our lives on social and cultural levels. This book takes readers on a journey through t...
reaktionbooks.co.uk
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New @carefultrouble.bsky.social paper out today with a whole bevy of academic partners, on the impacts of AI in urban environments. As the plan for AI Growth Zones starts to roll out, we find innovation policy is disconnected from the real impacts of AI on people and places
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Livingmaps Seminar (online) 21st November
Mapping resilience: Supporting water knowledge networks - Tracey Benson www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mapping-re...
Mapping resilience: Supporting water knowledge networks - Tracey Benson
Join us to explore local understandings of water and flood management in south east Queensland and beyond
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Come along to see Livingmapper @mikeduggan4.bsky.social chair a panel discussion on the question of 'who controls the map' at @britishlibrary.bsky.social events.bl.uk/events/onlin...
The Lie of the Land: Who Controls the Map? | British Library
Technologist Ed Parsons, Dr Ollie Ballinger and Dr Pragya Agarwal join cultural geographer Mike Duggan in this panel conversation to explore how maps and c
events.bl.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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For Manchester Livingmappers: Claire Reddleman to speak about 'The blue dot and the GPS selfie: the critique of the cartographic self' www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-blue-d...
The blue dot and the GPS selfie: the critique of the cartographic self
Dr Claire Reddleman, University of Manchester
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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New Special Section in Area:

'Digging into Data' adds to our 'Thinking with Methods' collection, with 6 papers reflecting on the messy process of qualitative empirical analysis.

Edited by @citiesandstuff.bsky.social & Lauren Wagner - available here⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
October 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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@livingmaps.bsky.social seminar series 'Mapping Fluid Worlds' starts Weds Oct 29th 6-7pm with a talk on 'The Flood Necklace' by Anne-Laure Fréant, a data-object of all recorded flood events of the Loire River in the city Orléans, spanning 1800-2003. Tix here: shorturl.at/mZh8A #rivers #maps #data
The Flood Necklace - Anne-Laure Fréant
Join us in the first event of our Mapping Fluid Worlds Series to explore how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history
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October 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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This fascinating show offers visitors a deeper sense of Le Guin’s maps as world-making and storytelling devices.
The maps of Ursula K Le Guin reveal a fascinating insight into world-building in fantasy fiction
This fascinating show offers visitors a deeper sense of Le Guin’s maps as world-making and storytelling devices.
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October 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Last few tickets remaining!
October 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Interested in creating more inclusive maps? Join us for a hands-on workshop on the 18th October to learn about and practice inclusive mapping www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusive-...
Inclusive Mapping Workshop: Creating a Design Brief
Join us for a hands-on workshop to learn about and practice inclusive mapping
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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@livingmaps.bsky.social Invite you to join us for our first Autumn 2025 Seminar Series, Mapping Fluid Worlds. In which Anne-Laure Fréant explores how data-sculpture can convey a river’s history, and questions how we store, share, and remember environmental histories. 👇👇

#maps #environmentalhistory
The Flood Necklace - Anne-Laure Fréant
Join us in the first event of our Mapping Fluid Worlds Series to explore how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history
www.eventbrite.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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🗺️ New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🗺️

'Counter-mapping as praxis: Participation, pedagogy, and creativity' by Mike Duggan and Daniel Gutiérrez-Ujaque

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @mikeduggan4.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social @udl.cat
Counter-mapping as praxis: Participation, pedagogy, and creativity - Mike Duggan, Daniel Gutiérrez-Ujaque, 2025
Counter-mapping has become central to a wide array of spatial practices across activist, artistic, and academic spaces. This article reconceptualises counter-ma...
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June 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
In our new article - ‘Counter-mapping as praxis: participation, pedagogy and creativity’ Daniel Gutierrez-Ujaque and I review the current state of counter-mapping, attempt to go beyond frameworks of participation, and resist the idea that counter-mapping is a universal methodology. DM for a copy
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June 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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More from Livingmaps Review 17!
In Mapworks, Debbie Kent gives focus to the You Are Here maps that populate urban centres. At once, both mundane street furniture and a portal into understanding our location on the earth.
www.livingmaps.org/you-are-here...
May 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Issue 17 of Livingmaps Review is now published. See inside for articles from Ekaterina Egorova, Javier Martinez, Kateryna Miller and Louise Francis, Debbie Kent, Tamsin Grainger, Blake Morris, Alix Camacho Vargas and Erin Turner livingmaps.squarespace.com/issue-17
Issue 17 — Livingmaps Network
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May 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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@livingmaps.bsky.social
BREAKING NEWS! 📢📢📢
We are delighted to announce our Keynote speaker for our More than Human Mappings Conference will be
Sasha Engelman: Mapping Planetary Weather
We hope you will join us!
For more information click the link below! 👇👇👇
www.livingmaps.org/forthcoming-...
April 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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📢 We are excited to announce the programme for our 2025 conference, More-Than-Human Mappings" Join us for 2 days of talks, workshops and an exhibition. Link for information & tickets here!!👇👇👇 livingmaps.squarespace.com/forthcoming-...
Forthcoming Events — Livingmaps Network
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March 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Applications are now open for 20 interdisciplinary jobs in AI at King’s College London: King’s AI+ Academic Fellowships, advancing AI across *all* disciplines (yes, inc. Arts & Hums — come and work with me!). www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...
@kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social
King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post)
King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...
www.kcl.ac.uk
March 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Now with programme added! www.livingmaps.org/forthcoming-...
March 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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📢📢📢We are excited to announce booking is now open for our 2025 Conference, More-Than-Human Mappings" on April 24 - 25th in London. Join us for 2 days of talks, workshops and an exhibition. Link for more information & tickets here!! (Concessions Available) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-than-...
More-than-human mappings - Livingmaps Network Conference 2025
Join us to share knowledge and ideas on mapping as an approach to exploring the more-than-human
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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@livingmaps.bsky.social Just 24 hours to go until our online seminar with Emilio Vavarella !!
Click the link below to book your ticket
#mapping #cartography #counter-mapping #maps
Cartographic Media and Art Practice - Emilio Vavarella
Emilio presents a series of projects on new forms of counter-mapping that exploit the errors and glitches of digital mapping technologies
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us - ‘All Mapped Out is an entertaining adventure for everyone who loves maps, both real and imaginary, analogue and digital’ reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/all-map... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
All Mapped Out | Reaktion Books
Maps go far beyond just showing us where things are located. All Mapped Out is an exploration of how maps impact our lives on social and cultural levels. This book takes readers on a journey through t...
reaktionbooks.co.uk
November 16, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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@livingmaps.bsky.social Invite you to join us online for our first 2025 seminar - Emilio Vavarella presents a series of projects on new forms of counter-mapping that exploit the errors and glitches of digital mapping technologies. For more information and to book tickets, click on the link below!
Cartographic Media and Art Practice - Emilio Vavarella
Emilio presents a series of projects on new forms of counter-mapping that exploit the errors and glitches of digital mapping technologies
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Tickets still available!
January 31, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Emilio Vavarella | Feb 27th 6pm UK online | Cartographic Media and Art Practice: New forms of counter-mapping www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cartograph...
Cartographic Media and Art Practice - Emilio Vavarella
Emilio presents a series of projects on new forms of counter-mapping that exploit the errors and glitches of digital mapping technologies
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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More-Than-Human Mapping Conference, April 24/25th, London: Registration now open www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-than-...
More-than-human mappings - Livingmaps Network Conference 2025
Join us to share knowledge and ideas on mapping as an approach to exploring the more-than-human
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM