Mapping the Present
What if the City was Ocean, and its buildings ships?
Written by Tim Ingold, and based on an artistic practice by David Lemm's 2015 exhibition at the Edinburgh Printmakers' Gallery, Debris and Phenomena.
Short reading:
https://edinburghsculpture.org/whats-on/lines-of-inquiry-a-talk-with-tim-ingold-and-david-lemm/
There are many more texts by Ingold online or in the library, if you wish.
Resources
Mapping Manchester
Historical maps from the University of Manchester's digital collections.
Cotton Capital
An excellent resource for following a local place through global histories of labour, extraction, trade and wealth.
Migration Stories NW
An interactive migration-map project documenting individual histories of migration into and out of North West England.
Unsettling the Continent, 1492–1750
A short animation from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History depicting the movements of Indigenous peoples, Europeans and Africans across North America during colonisation.
SlaveVoyages: Introductory Maps to the Transatlantic Slave Trade
CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions — Our World in Data
An interactive global data explorer.
History of Climate Science — UCAR
An interactive timeline tracing the development of climate science, from early discoveries about carbon dioxide to contemporary climate research.
Donna Haraway — Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin
A short, open-access theoretical text that questions how we name planetary transformations and think about relations between capitalism, colonialism, ecology and other forms of life.