“Community MapMaking /
Mapas Colectivos”
a Spring 2025, Short Intergenerational Project with Artist-in-Residence, Hernán (‘Nan’) Joubá
About:
"I work as a concierge, so maps hold a very big but very specific place in my world," shared one participant of "Collective Map-Making / Mapas Colectivos" – the creative-cartography workshop we hosted with Artist-in-Residence, Hernán (‘Nan’) Joubá.
For four weeks, Nan guided participants in mapping just that: an understanding of their individual worlds as well as shared worlds – physical or imaginary – through conversation, as well as accessible visual art techniques like collaging and collaborative drawing. Leading them into charting a reality for themselves and their community with a map that was unveiled at our final showcase event – Tuesday, March 25th at the Egleston Square Branch of the Boston Public Library.
Attendees got to witness the map through the voices of its creators who each showed up with a curio of personal significance; a curio each of them used to “trace” their individual path within the larger shared map (see below). The map itself was documented and will soon be made available to the public (through Urbano).
The Curios:
About the Artist:
Artist-in-Residence, Hernán (‘Nan’) Jouba (he/him), was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and studied filmmaking in Tokyo. He now lives in Providence (RI) and cultivates an interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of video, theatre and writing, while designing and executing cultural programs. Among other honours, he is a Performing Arts Fellow at “Loba Lab” (Studio Loba & Brown Arts Institute, 2024/25); a MacColl Johnson Fellow in Creative Writing (2022) and a past writer-in-residence at MassMoCA (2021) and Cité Internationale des Artes (France, 2018).