Consuming Cartographies - Bucks County
The workshop will explore a constructed cartography that layers the contemporary landscape and infrastructures of Bucks County with its legacy of industrial-scale craft. The history of craft in the region will be highlighted through a selection of plates from the Hexamer General Surveys from 1866 to 1896. This survey marks the foundations of the Fire Insurance Map system, which later became the most prolific city surveying tool at the turn of the century. Bucks County sits between modernity and tradition.
Where are we? How does the process of cooking connect us to landscape, history, and each other, forming a shared and site specific understanding of community? This workshop provides a kitchen table to share knowledge and involves the delicate labor of preparing food. The collective performance of small, repetitive tasks transforms the space into a literal workshop, unlocking memory and fostering an environment of collective listening and learning.
Explore Bucks County’s identity by bridging food, landscape, and history. Participants will examine the region’s industrial craft legacy through 19th- century Hexamer General Surveys while engaging in the collective labor of food preparation. Accompanied by a lecture on historic industrial architecture, the session transforms repetitive cooking tasks (pasta making) into a shared dialogue. Join us to foster collective memory and site-specific community learning concluding with a shared meal.
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