Name: Excursion: “You are Here!” Creating Feminist, Decolonial, and Community Maps
Start: 2025-08-14T12:30:00-0400
End: 2025-08-14T15:30:00-0400

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Thursday August 14, 2025 12:30pm - 3:30pm EDT

The Icon

-This excursion will begin at The Icon.
-This is a walking tour. Please dress comfortably for potentially uneven terrain and the weather conditions.
-This excursion will involve making.

“Traveling is more than going from one place to another. It is part of a tradition, and it is a metaphor for life.”
–J. Andrew Darling

“You are here! Creating Feminist, Decolonial, and Community Maps” asks us to reflect on how the ways we visually represent the land impact our relationship to it. U.S. American maps inscribe a colonial version of history on the landscape with place names based on British, French, and U.S. American conquistadors and settlers. This workshop will engage participants in creating maps that center feminist, decolonial and community perspectives, and to learn the meanings, origins, and histories of the place names we use to “label” the land, with a goal of growing connection and healing relationships between land, water and people.

Participants will receive two additional texts for attending this session:

-Monmonier, How to Lie with Maps
-Hill, Detroit in 50 Maps

Speakers

Joanne Coutts

Independent

I am an independent cartographer, writer, and activist whose work focuses on humanitarian aid in the Sonoran Desert and water rights in Michigan. I volunteer with Ajo Samaritans, volunteer search and rescue groups in Arizona and Waawiyatanong Water Protector Network. My cartographic... Read More →

Thursday August 14, 2025 12:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
The Icon 200 Walker St, Detroit, MI 48207, USA

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