Editorial Team
Mike Duggan
Editor-in-Chief
Mike works in the Digital Humanities Department at King's College London. He holds a PhD in Cultural Geography from Royal Holloway University of London, working in partnership with the Ordnance Survey on studying everyday digital mapping practices. His research is primarily interested in the tensions and contradictions that emerge when we examine how digital society and technology is theorised alongside how everyday life is lived. This has manifested in research about digital mapping practices, counter and radical cartography, and the lived experiences of the sharing economy
Email: michael.duggan@livingmaps.org.uk
Barbara Brayshay
Waypoints
Barbara is a Director of Living Maps and editor of the Waypoints section of Living Maps Review. With an academic background in geography and bioarchaeology, she now works as an independent researcher specialising in mapping as a tool for participatory action research. Barbara also works with the Festival Research Group and Guerilla Archaeology an outreach initiative based in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at the University of Cardiff, delivering creative events at UK music festivals, combining her specialist knowledge of archaeological science with her love of electronic dance music, art and public engagement. Her recent research explores the impact of COVID-19 on festival-goers experiencing the loss of live events and their response to virtual alternatives.
Email: barbara.brayshay@gmail.com
Blake Morris
Lines of Desire
Blake is a walking artist, independent scholar and research impact specialist based in New York City. His artistic work and scholarly research focus on inviting people to walk together, often at a distance through the use of digital tools. Projects have included British Summer Time, an ongoing series of global sunrise walks and the Arts Council England funded project This is not a Slog, for which he created three site-specific walks for Ovalhouse Theatre (London). His recent book, Walking Networks: The Development of an Artistic Medium (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2020) offers an overview of the current field of walking art in the United Kingdom and a definition for the medium. His writing can also be found in journals such as Green Letters: Studies in Eco-Criticism, the International Journal of Tourism Cities, and Claire Hind and Clare Qualmann s Ways to Wander publications (Axminster: Triarchy Press).
Email: blakemwalks@gmail.com
Clare Qualmann
Lines of Desire
Clare is an artist/researcher with an interdisciplinary performance oriented practice. From a background in the visual arts her work engages a range of participatory methods, and a range of media to explore the politics and potentials of everyday life. From 2012 - 2015 she led an AHRC funded project to develop the Walking Artists Network, an international online directory for the use of walking in creative practice. Her own projects use walking as process, method and outcome for instigating and investigating exchanges between people and places. Recent commissions include walkwalkwalk: stories from the Bethnal Green archive (2010) a permanent installation of architectural text-works in Bethnal Green Old Town Hall.
Email: c.qualmann@uel.ac.uk
Jina Lee
Review
Jina holds a PhD from University of the Arts London and is currently an artist and researcher whose work operates at the intersection of critical mapping, drawing practices, and participatory methodologies. Her research investigates how mapping can be mobilised as an embodied, situated, and relational practice that foregrounds subaltern and migrant perspectives, challenging the dominant epistemologies through which space and territory are typically represented and governed. It is to extend how critical cartographic practices can reimagine relations between bodies, territories, and collective memory.
Email: jinalee0518@gmail.com
Heather Miles
Mapworks
Is a PhD student in human geography at the University of Manchester. Heather's research interests are the relationship between mapping and contrasting forms of knowledge and data; the interlacing of digital and hand-done processes in the making and use of maps; the relationship between mapping and the discipline of geography; and transdisciplinarity. For her PhD she is exploring the use of contrasting practices of mapping together - geospatial, narrative-based and embodied mapping - as an approach to transdisciplinarity.
You can find materials for map-making research produced by Heather in our Resources section.