Mapping presentation:

Captain Matt 'Shivers' Shanley presented various and creative ways in which information and places can be documented. This included, emotional mapping, information in the form of visual perspectives and a interactive digital mapping on a building. This gave our crewmates ideas to begin their mapping workshop.

Exploring the narrative:

The Plankers crew started to create a narrative of their chosen sites. Creating a narrative brought a better understanding of the relationship between different spaces and how they can be reinterpreted into a interesting moments.

The Lost Philosophers

As the crew (The plankers) journeyed through the sites, they came across a art project that explored portraiture. The photographs displayed transformed into The Plankers finding photos of the 'lost philosophers', a group that disappeared into the alternate world of reality.

Our Crew came across a interstitial space along Deansgate that was defined by a enclosure of trees. This served as a starting point for the crews narrative, a reinterpretation of the space as a 'path of symbols' that contained a key subplot to the overall narrative.

X Marks the spot! Day 2 of our events saw the students exploring the city of Manchester through a series of set tasks. The tasks were created to help the students reinterpret their surroundings; starting to create a narrative..

Day 1: Boarding the ship

Talk by Emily Crompton on behalf of Urbed about the use of mapping and narrative in urban design. The talk provided a introduction to how mapping helps structure design practice.