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  • STORIES
  • CONTACT

FIELD  NOTES   WORKBOOK

The Field Notes Workbook for Narrative Cartography is comprised of prompts that encourage awareness of one's sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions, embodied felt sense, and imagination to be recorded throughout a roaming excursion. The collected data is marked on an illustrated map of the area, weaving together the salient characteristics of the place and one’s subjective experience therein.

STEP  ONE :
​PLOT  POINTS

Guided by impulse, the participant pauses to scan and record the five senses, emotions, thoughts, and felt sense. This becomes a plot point in the story and will guide the written prose at a later stage.

STEP  TWO :
COGNITIVE   MAP

After multiple plot points have been collected, the participant sketches a cognitive map of the area traversed. ​A cognitive map is essentially a map from memory, and whatever is most important naturally stands out. 

STEP   THREE :
​NARRATIVE   CARTOGRAPHY

Narrative Cartography is the interweaving of story and map. By inviting the more-than-human world to co-author the narrative of life,
​we call upon perspectives beyond our own, ​and create an opportunity to see with new eyes. 
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