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2017

The Cartographer’s Confession

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Multiple locations
240 minutes

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Commissioned Work

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literary

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London

5 sub-collections · 158 items
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prose

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The Cartographer's Confession is a geo-located app that presents a fictional story set in London, unfolding as users walk through three specific city locations. It integrates voice, video, prose, archival 1940s photographs, illustrations, 3D soundscapes, and a custom musical score to deliver an immersive literary experience. The app supports pausing and resuming across multiple sessions and won the 2017 New Media Writing Prize.

The Cartographer’s Confession is a geo-located app featuring a fictional story situated in London that unfolds as users walk around three different city locations. Further material is released as users travel between the three areas in London where the story takes place. It combines voice, video, prose, original 1940’s photographs of London, commissioned illustrations, 3D soundscapes and a bespoke musical score to create a rich literary experience.
The app can be paused at any point and retains the user’s place. Different chapters can be experienced on different days if preferred. The app won the New Media Writing Prize for 2017.

APA style reference

Attlee, J. (2017). The Cartographer’s Confession. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/the-cartographers-confession/

slew

A short walk or stroll, as in “I’ll take a slew around the harbour before going to bed.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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