Building on previous iterations, I started a medium exploration, folding my handmande countries’ names into a zine and I experimenting with the shapes of countries’ sea areas.
The resulting patterns relate to topographic representation or expansion of sea areas, and the zine format to folded maps.
After reading an article about gentrification in Ladbroke Grove, I made a map with all the remaining spots related to Caribbean Culture.
And made a map of maps using my references.
The work by Jean Pierre praises the work of New York delivery drivers by collecting screenshots from Google Street View.
The designer shines a light on their work, but uses a distant approach.
The first pages on this zine show a delivery rider I found navigating Google Street View and information like cost of gear and hourly pay. Then a fictional day-in-the-life-style-story, based on a true account taken from the news article. It exposes their precarious working conditions.
I experimented with video iterations.
Linda Knight’s Inefficient Mapping: A Protocol for Attuning to Phenomena provide useful methods for exploring this question. The author focuses on the unmappable. She embraces the abstract as way to represent the complex relations between human and non-human organisms.
The next iterations map the presence of delivery riders as observed from six different spots on Granary Square, using tracing paper and a black pen over a photo of the square.
I gathered the maps from Granary Square in this larger 21x21cm unfinished publication, which shows them in true size next to my personal notes while drawing them. It ends with an interview with Paulo, a Brazilian delivery rider who works every day from 7am to 11pm.