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[edit] Framework

The Cartographic Congress is lightly organised. A basic framework of 6 meals and 6 field trips will be added to by participants (get in touch via the UoMailingLists if you want to) from now and throughout the 6 weeks of the congress.

[edit] Structures for Participation

Cartography comes in many forms, so how participation is structured should also be very negotiable. However, to help prospective participants prepare for the congress, here are some suggestsions as to how we might structure out involvement.

Feild Trips

If there's a site, a walk, a wander or a specific activity that fits in with your cartographic research, feel free to suggest a feild trip during the congress. See how it might fit into the schedule and let us know about it on the UoMailingList.

Workshops

Any projects requiring longer and more intense participation (eg. software development, extended map making experiments etc..) could organise themselves as workshops. Although meals and feild trips will be happening on weekends, workshops can happen throughout the week. Please get in touch with Saul (from Limehouse Town Hall - saul@twenteenthcentury.com) if you have a suggestion and space, resources and access can be negotiated.

Presentations

If your research is best represented by a presentation, please prepare a short talk (15-30 mins) about it. A/V equipment can be provided (if arranged in advance) and any other facilitation can be negotiated. The presentation could take place, salon-style before one of the meals (pre-dinner presentation) in the map room or the hall.

Alternatively, if the presentation is location-specific, it could be part of a feild trip, so if there is a feild trip scheduled that relates to your research, a 20 minute talk in a location, or at Limehouse before the trip would make sense.

Longer talks can also be organised if you have one to give.

The Cartographic Congress is also scheduled to happen during Dorkbotlondon14 (see http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotlondon/) so there will be a chance to present your research publically if it makes sense within dorkbot's theme of 'people doing strange things with electricity'.

Meals

So far several meals have been suggested. There doesn't need to be a theme, but if providing food for people and working with the form of a meal sounds like it would compliment your research, feel fee to suggest another one.

Hall of Maps

All through the Congress, maps will be installed, or mapping processes will be initiated throughout limehouse town hall. The Hall of Maps will be open to the public at specific visiting hours throughout the 6 weeks. If you have a map that you think would be interesting installed in Limehouse Town Hall (see http://twenteenthcentury.com/lth/ for photos), please let us know via the UoMailingList.

Map Room

Throughout the 6 weeks, a map room with mapping resources, the University of Openess Library, (trash)computer and network facilities and good tea and coffee will be open at Limehouse Town Hall. This is intended as an informal meeting place where other events and projects can be organised, and resources can accumulate. If you have mapping texts, resources, links, printed maps (they'll be taken care of!) or other interesting items for the Map Room, please bring them along.

Publication

There is a possibility of gathering some texts, conversations, maps and other ephemera from the Congress into a publication after the event, this is another possible avenue for participation (and one that doesn't require physical presence).

Apart from the framework, projects can be initiated and developed at Limehouse, locally or remotely and can associate with the Congress. The Schedule is open to submissions, so consult it, enter the dates and times preferred and let us know about any projects you have planned.

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These are simply a few ideas. If the mode of engagement that makes most sense for your project or group isn't represented, please edit this page to reflect your needs and let us know on the UoMailingLists.

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