In Workshop 4 of the CHASE City Maps series, Shannon Mattern (The New School) and Rebecca Ross (Central Saint Martins) examined methods for exploring, excavating, observing, testing, and notating urban media infrastructures, broadly defined. Participants developed a shared infrastructural question and cartographic strategy, before heading out to Bloomsbury’s Russell Square and environs to make observations. The workshop culminated with participants showing and discussing layered maps that they devised as part of the exercise.

In addition to the film clip above, you can find more background about Workshop 4 in this summary.

Note: This brief post is one in a short series highlighting material available on the website related to the CHASE City Maps workshop series.