Invitation to live webinar about collective and collaborative digital mapping and sound walking as an ecological form of art,
by Geert Vermeire and Fred Adam, CGeomap.
Saturday, May 16th – 12 noon, at the Urban Tree Festival in London.
Duration about 45 minutes.
(Free) tickets can be booked via the site of the Urban Tree Festival.
CGeomap is a digital platform and open-source software for Geo-Storytelling, allowing simultaneous group creation of spatial narratives and locative writing. The concept of CGeomap is based on collaborative online creation and is a tool of connection with the Earth in our time of global crises.
You are invited to join!
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