Mapping Global Warming - a distributable project

Catherine Harris

Intro to Art and Ecology

Fall 2009, Project Three

Mapping global warming – a distributable project:

Final Due November 13, 2009

Guidelines:

1. Identify an issue/idea about global warming that you’d like to map based in the city of Albuquerque. (Due October 23, in class)

2. Create a mapping of that issue. This can be two or three-dimensional. You can base it on a literal physical map of the city. You could work with a different map, such as a mental map, or a map of the wind directions, or a map of food consumption…. While you are mapping, you will be researching the parameters of your issue. As you understand it, your map may change. Does a light rail on Central help with car commuters and thus emissions? Would the light rail need another line? Another location? How far do we go to make it helpful? Quantify your data. Make your map flexible.

3. Make your map helpful, as well as visually compelling. You are pointing out a possibility for change. How will change be effected? How are you suggesting change happen? Include this on your map presentation.

4. Decide how you will distribute your map. Would you like to have it as a hand out? Will it be a youtube video? Will it be a button, a business card, a foldout, a rubber bouncy ball with a map embedded in it? Whatever you choose, make sure you can actually make at least 26 copies. We will have time in class to distribute them and I want one and I’d like you to be able to give away at least 25. (without breaking the bank….)

5. Options for reproduction: Moo and Rocket both make postcards and business cards cheaply. You need to plan ahead, as both are internet services. Look around in town for who might print cheaply for you. You could make your own ink stamps, potato or otherwise. You could do lino cuts or some other easy to reproduce printing method. You could Xerox or print from a laser printer. You could make a jig and make small reproducible three-dimensional objects out of wood, fabric, cardboard, wire or wax, for example. You could make buttons, zines….