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Portrait of Jennifer Crouch in Svalbard. Jamie Lee Mohr (2016).

One of the main objectives of @jennifer.crouch and her extensive project #MakinginTransit was to recreate a type of geographical representation invented by the Inuit communities of Eastern Greenland. People in these religions created these #maps as a form of #tactile encoding of the coastlines, perhaps as items that could be used in navigation by boat. #wood and #driftwood can be found and floats on water, making them practical when traveling in small boats.

Creating these maps involved observation and selection of the most salient, permanent features of the coastlines in the remote archipelago of #Svalbard#higharctic . It also involved the use of #mora blade made from stainless steel. Being grounded in #observation one of the messages encouraged by their making was to pay attention to the stable features and changes in our #environment making the reality of #climate change something we can all connect to. #measurement #data #citizenscience

#makingintransit