Queering cartographic epistemologies through arts-based and multi-sensory participatory mapping methods

创建酷儿曼彻斯特的反制图这个博士项目旨在探索映射酷儿空间的新方法，通过一些映射研讨会，锌研讨会，并创建一个酷儿曼彻斯特的声音地图。基于与实践的创造性接触，我将酷儿地理领域的概念性工作与批判性制图方法进行对话，以产生一套创造性的制图方法。这种方法建立在我的硕士论文项目的基础上，该项目研究了参与式的基于艺术的映射研讨会如何产生更有意义的酷儿空间表示，以及使映射更容易获得和愉快的实践。 研究背景我的论文提供了一个原始的贡献，既酷儿地理-地理学术，解构heteronormativity和承认性别的流动性-和批判性制图-一种方法，挑战的想法，地图是中立的科学文献。虽然“精确”的地图可能对导航有用，但批评性的制图师指出，缺乏矛盾或矛盾的空间使制图者在他们可以制作的地图类型上的自由度大大降低。这些标准还将制图工作限制在那些能够获得制作“准确”地图所需的技术和知识的人。 然而，活动家，艺术家和学者倡导新的测绘方式，允许更富有想象力的空间表示。其中许多方法不再需要地理精确性，而是直接与参与者合作制作新地图。这一运动与绘制酷儿体验的想法越来越感兴趣的时间相吻合，毫无疑问，社区生成的绘制项目Queering the Map的创建进一步加强了这一点。 受这些新的映射方法和酷儿映射的兴起的启发，这个项目将研究如何基于艺术和多感官映射可以用来分层表达酷儿空间的不同方式，包括但不限于可视化。 研究问题三个研究问题支撑这个项目：1.创造性的制图方法在提高酷儿地理研究的参与度方面有多大作用？2.在曼彻斯特，通过多感官地图方法说明了什么奇怪的地理？3.这些方法对制图知识生产有什么影响？ 目前的关键制图学奖学金使用数字制图，这往往依赖于需要促进技术-阻碍其参与潜力。此外，并不是每个人都能将空间作为一种视觉现象来体验，那些不能体验空间的人往往被排除在测绘研究之外。相反，我的目标是利用更民主和更容易获得的方法，这些方法是由参与者设计的，也是为了参与者的需要而设计的。具体来说，我提出的方法融合了民族志，auto-ethnographic，文本和创造性的方法，以致力于创造事物而不是简单地记录它们为基础。 我将举办一些关于酷儿映射主题的制锌研讨会，以便更好地了解曼彻斯特的酷儿体验，并了解“映射”对参与者意味着什么。然后，我将促进五个映射研讨会，参与者使用拼贴，绘画或建筑模型等创造性技术制作自己的曼彻斯特非数字酷儿地图。与此同时，我将要求曼彻斯特的LGBTQ+人士录制音景，以创建一个城市的协作酷儿声音地图。我还将创建一个网站和社交媒体帐户，以提供有关研讨会和活动的信息，以及更新和反思的博客文章。我将在参与者知情同意的情况下分享整个项目中创建的地图和杂志，以便直接让酷儿社区参与他们地图的所有权和传播。

Creating counter cartographies of queer Manchester This PhD project seeks to explore new ways of mapping queer space, through a number of mapping workshops, zine workshops, and the creation of a sound map of queer Manchester. Grounded in creative encounters with practice, I bring conceptual work from the field of queer geography into dialogue with critical cartography methodologies to generate a set of creative mapping methods. This methodology builds on my master's dissertation project, which examined how participatory arts-based mapping workshops can generate more meaningful representations of queer space, as well as make mapping a more accessible and enjoyable practice. Research Context My thesis delivers an original contribution to both queer geography - geographical scholarship that deconstructs heteronormativity and acknowledges the fluidity of gender - and critical cartography - an approach which challenges the idea that maps are neutral scientific documents. While "accurate" maps may be useful for navigation, critical cartographers have pointed out that the lack of space for contradiction or ambivalence gives mapmakers much less freedom over the kind of maps they can make. These standards also restrict the practice of cartography to those who have access to the technology and knowledge necessary to make "accurate" maps. However, activists, artists and academics have advocated for new ways of mapping that allow for more imaginative representations of space. Many of these approaches abandon the need for geographic accuracy and involve collaborating directly with participants in the production of new maps. This movement has coincided with an increasing interest in the idea of mapping queer experiences, undoubtedly invigorated by the creation of the community-generated mapping project Queering the Map. Inspired by these new mapping methods and the insurgence of queer mapping, this project will examine how arts-based and multi-sensory mapping can be used to layer different ways of articulating queer space, including but beyond visualisation. Research Questions Three research questions underpin this project: 1. How useful are creative cartographic methods in improving participation in queer geography research? 2. What queer geographies are illustrated through multi-sensory mapping methods in Manchester? 3. What implications do these methods have for cartographic knowledge production? Methodology Much of the current critical cartography scholarship uses digital mapping, which often relies on technologies that require facilitation - hindering its participatory potential. Furthermore, not everyone can experience space as a visual phenomenon, and those who cannot are often excluded from mapping research. Instead, I aim to utilise more democratic and accessible methods designed both by and for the needs of participants. Specifically, my proposed methodology blends ethnographic, auto-ethnographic, textual and creative approaches, underpinned by a commitment to making things rather than simply documenting them. I will hold a number of zine-making workshops on the topic of queer mapping, in order to gain a better understanding of queer experiences in Manchester and to learn what "mapping" means to participants. I will then facilitate five mapping workshops, where participants make their own non-digital queer map of Manchester using creative techniques such as collage, drawing, or building models. Simultaneously, I will ask LGBTQ+ people in Manchester to record soundscapes, to create a collaborative queer sound map of the city. I will also create a website and social media accounts to provide information on workshops and events, and blog posts with updates and reflections. I will share the maps and zines created throughout the project, with the informed consent of participants, in order to directly involve the queer community in the ownership and dissemination of their maps.