Walking East Northfield Project

Much of the inspiration for deep mapping comes out of a long tradition of slowing down, walking through a specific place, and paying attention. From William Least Heat-Moons PrairyErth to psychogeography, to Denis Wood’s “Narrative Atlas” project, many of the foundational readings on Deep Mapping reference this impulse and provide models to follow and theories to think with.  The Spring 2023 class put it into practice by collectively walking and mapping the East Northfield

Northfield Quadrangle

The map below is a first experiment in mapping this part of our area. It contains overlapping borders for counties and indigenous territories, languages and treaties that intersect the USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle for Northfield MN.

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