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Mapping & Storytelling

of our Histories of Home

with

Daniele Fogel (OBI)

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“The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is ‘knowing thyself’ as a product of the historical process to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.  Therefore it is imperative at the outset to compile such an inventory.”

~Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks

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Workshop Goals

  • To ground us in thinking about how personal history intersects with structures around housing and systems that have created the places where we live

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  • To reflect on how the stories we tell about the past shape our understanding of the present and our relationship to change

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“The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is ‘knowing thyself’ as a product of the historical process to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.  Therefore it is imperative at the outset to compile such an inventory.”

~Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks

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Map the places where you've lived.

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You can do it in one of two ways:

1) mapping all places you've lived,

2) mapping how you got to where you're living today

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(the 2nd one more open, so if you're not wanting to think about the past, this is an easier way in)

  • Map doesn't have to be to scale
  • Do this on big paper! Tape a few pieces of paper together!
  • Get comfortable

Mapping & Storytelling our Histories of Home

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Adding to your maps

From our collective brainstorm about housing terms, add to your map:

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  • how do these words relate to your map?
  • how do various concepts relate to where you were living or where you live or how you got to where you live now?
  • what are things you have questions about, where are the gaps in your inventory in terms of the place where you are now? What are things you want to know deeper?

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Put the actual words onto your map so you're regrounding these in place. Then think about the factors or things that influenced where you lived

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What parts of your maps aren't about housing but relate to housing?