Songlines

Chatwin, B., (1988), The Songlines, London: Macmillan Publishers.

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Aboriginal creation myths tell of the legendary totemic beings who had wandered over the continent in the Dreamtime, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path-birds,animals, plants. rocks, water-holes-and so singing the world into existence.
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Now, in a Europe of mindless materialism, his 'old men' seemed wiser and more thoughtful than ever
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the Aboriginals had an earthbound philosophy. the earth gave life to a man; gave him his food, language and intelligence; and the earth took him back when he died. a man's own country' even an empty strech of spinifex, was itself a sacred ikon that must remain unscarred.
'to wound the earth ...is to wound yourself, and if others wound the earth , they are wounding you.
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the Aboriginals...were a people who trod lightly over the earth; and the less they took from the earth, the less they had to give in returm.
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Aboriginals could not belive the country existed until they could see and sing it...'to exist' is 'to be perceived'.

Home

Blunt, A.,Dowling, R., (2006), Home. London: Routledge.

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home is not merely a physical structure or a geogrephical location but always an emotional spacel.
home is neither the dwelling nor the feeling, but the relation between the two.
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home does not simply exist, but is made. home is a process of creating and understanding forms of dwelling and belonging.
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for Rominies 'domestic rituals'are 'performed in a house, a condtructed shelter, and derive meaning from the protection and confinement a house can provide...it can be an ordinary housenold task such as ...sewing a seam.
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home is an idea: an inner geography ....
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household guides helped to redefine middle-class domesticity and the feminine attributes on which it was seen to depend, and gave a new status to women at home.
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magazines and a growing number of househokd guides helped to redefine middle-class domesticity and the feminine attributes on which it was seen to depend, and gave new status to women at home...throughout its history, the women's magazine has defined its reders 'as women'...femininity is always reprresented in the magazines as fractured....still to be achived. Houshold guides ...both asserting a femimized domesticity and instructing women on its achievements.
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resarchers in ...women's history have been reevaluating home economics, developing an understanding of it as a profession that... opened up oportunities for women...some were focused on the home, while others were more concerned with the broader social environment.
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the 1950s home increasingly articulated interior design as a form of household management....this discouurse gave women a new capacity to shape there part of the world during the 1940s and 1950s
one the one hande both state and market discourses suggested that women could sweep away the elements of traditional....home designs... on the other, popular magazines also placed a great deal of emphasis on the look of things and on looking itself, further inscribing women's identity within domestic space.
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'modern' architects argued that the kitchen should be a machine for cooking in, but this small modern, and efficient space.... completely overlooked ...working class social practice'.
kitchens were to small for a table, but ...reidents ate there...perched up at the ironing board or at the shelf by the hatch.

Mythogeography at the Royal William Victualling Yard

http://www.mythogeography.com

Bridgette Ashton artist.

This is a lucky find. I was thinking of making an inuet map of my kitchen out of cake, but was beginning to think it was a very off the wall idea, as it cant be picked up and handled. Now as I have found this it has encouraged me to take my idea forward, as someone else has mapped thing out of food.

England Biscuit (2010) Project I Dream of Europe.


Gingerbread Traffic Jam (2008)

Bridgette Ashton & Nicole Mollett

'Ashton & Mollett reinvent the hardtack ship's biscuit as an ornately embossed edible artwork depicting the fate of the Golden Hinde. From circumnavigator to decaying Deptford eatery to souvenir chair.

Audiences are invited to a "Make & Bake" performance at the Creekside Centre on 1st Oct 1-3pm.

Deptford X 2011 Main Programme'

http://www.bridgetteashton.co.uk/currentprojects.html

(Accessesed on 29/11/11 at 11:23)

Maps of Meaning

Jackson, p., (1992) Maps of Meaning, London:Routledge.

"Maps of Meaning" refers to the way we make sence of the world, rendering our geographhical experience intelligible, attaching value to the environment and investing the material world with symbolic significance.

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Human impact on the face of the Earth has become ever more insistent - we have no choice but to enlarge the geographical imagination.

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Cultire is 'the way the social relations of a group are structured and shaped, but it is also the way those shapes are experienced, understood and interpreted.

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Perhaps the most fundamental contribution of feminism to social theory has been the recognition that gender divisions (including so-called 'masculine' and 'feminine' personality traits) are socially constructed...Restraints formerly placed on women's actions...have increasingly been shown to have their roots in political and economic relations rather than in the laws of biology.

Inuit Wood Maps

In 2000 Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) issued a stamp with a wooden map as a part of the Cultural Heritage series:

“...wood was, and is, the most distinctive medium used by the Greenland Eskimos in mapmaking. Blocks are carved in relief to represent the rugged coastline of Greenland with its fjords, islands, nunataks and glaciers, the shapes of the various islands being linked together with rods. In order to reduce the size of the blocks, the outline of the coast is carried up one side and down the other.”

Leo Bagrow, History of Cartography. Revised and enlarged by R.A. Skelton. Cambridge, Harvard U. Press, 1960, p. 27.



Three-dimensional maps of coastlines were carved of wood as long as three hundred years ago. These Inuit charts were usually carved from driftwood and are made to be felt rather than looked at. The Inuit hold this map under their mittens and feel the contours with their fingers to discern patterns in the coastline. The land is very abstract. It is limited to “edges” that can be felt on a dark night in a kayak. Since they are made of wood they are impervious to the weather, and will float if they are dropped overboard accidentally. It will also last longer that one that is printed.

http://spacecollective.org/mslima/3220/Inuit-Wood-Maps

Cake art by Russian baker Zhanna.

Unknown., (2009) Cake Art – The tasty side of design. [online] Available at: http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/cake-art-the-tasty-side-of-design