Livingmaps Network

Barbara Brayshay

Is a freelance researcher in the areas of social justice, digital media, community development and sustainability.
Her academic background is in environmental science and social research. She has worked with charities and Local and Central Government funded projects. Barbara is interested in participatory mapping as a tool for data visualisation and for building the evidence base to enable greater citizen empowerment. She edits the Waypoints section of Livingmaps Review. 

Toby Butler

Dr Toby Butler is a heritage consultant and public historian with a particular interest in oral history, digital heritage, and mapping memories. For six years Toby led an innovative MA programme in Heritage Studies: place, memory and history at the Raphael Samuel History Centre. Toby is known internationally for his work exploring how history and memory can be mapped and used to interpret places and their pasts. Projects include Ports of Call, working with community groups and artists around the docks of East London to map and historically interpret the area; the Bethnal Green Disaster Memorial Project and Groundbreakers, mapping and interpreting the pre-Olympic history of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford. Toby is currently a reader in historical geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he is leading a major AHRC funded research project on the oral history of the environmental movement. He is also a digital education consultant at Birkbeck, University of London where he recently worked on the Mapping Museums project, to create an online database and map of all the museums in the UK from 1960-present featuring his interviews with 57 museum founders and he co-ordinated a project to set up a regional support network for aviation museums. Email: toby.butler@rhul.ac.uk

mIKE duggan

Is Editor-in-chief of Livingmaps Review.
He is a visiting lecturer in Digital Culture at Kings College London where he teaches on the BA course ‘Digital Cultures’, including modules on Big Data, Culture and Society, The History of Networked Technologies and Theories of New Media. He has a PhD in Cultural Geography from Royal Holloway University of London, working in partnership with the Ordnance Survey on studying everyday mapping practices.
His research is focused on the intersections between everyday life, mapping practices and digital technologies.

Jina Lee

Is a PhD student at the University of Arts, London. Her artwork and research are about the collapse of territorial boundaries between social, political and geographical space, elements which are in a state of increasing fluidity and movement of emigration. Jina’s observations and findings, made through various modes of drawing, open the possibility for unsuspected interactions of experience and knowledge in relation to geopolitical and cultural boundary issues.

Heather Miles

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.

Phil Cohen

Is Editor-at-large of Livingmaps Review.
He is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London. Phil started using mapping methods in working with young people in East London about their sense of place, identity and belonging.
His publications include Knuckle Sandwich: Growing up in the Working Class City (1978), Rethinking the Youth Question (1990), London’s Turning: the making of Thames Gateway (2006), On the Wrong Side of the Track: East London and the Post-Olympics (2013), London 2012 and the Post Olympic City (2017) and Archive That, Comrade: Left Legacies and the counter culture of remembrance (2018). 
Further information: 
www.philcohenworks.com

Blake Morris

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).

kimbal QUIST BUMBSTEAD

Kimbal’s art practice stems from his background in participatory performance art and his fascination with maps. His work explores notions of the imagined and re-imagined landscape, abstraction as a form of storytelling, and mark-making as a tool to tune-in to sensory, emotional and embodied experiences. He uses a broad range of media, from painting and drawing to video, performance and site-specific installation.

 Kimbal facilitates workshops, participatory drawing projects and runs art classes for adult education. He has worked with various community groups and grassroots organisations across London, including Camberwell Arts, Lewisham People’s Day and Livingmaps Network, and run creative outreach workshops for the Royal Docks Team. He has exhibited and performed internationally. He has written about his practice in journals and his writing ‘Unmapping Space: Lines, Smudges and Stories’ has recently been published in the book New Directions in Radical Cartography (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021) 

CLARE QUALMANN

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.

Jacob Wallett

Jacob Wallett is an artist from London based in The Netherlands. He is currently studying in the ArtScience department at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK) in The Hague. He has Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in chemistry from University College London (UCL). 

Giada Peterle

Is a Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Padua with a project entitled Urban Literary Geographies: Mapping the city through narrative interpretation and creative practice.

Atif Mohammed Ghani

Is Director-Producer at Heritage 5G LTD, and Producer with HyperActive Developments Ltd. He is interested in youth engagement and in creating immersive digital learning tools for young people.