What began as a simple collaborative map-making project has grown into an impressive work of art, beautifully capturing the diverse experiences found in the common place that is Carleton College. Carltography was created by Carleton Students Peter Barron ’17, Vayu Maini Rekdal ’15, and Jackson Van Fleet ’15. Students, alumni, faculty, staff, and other members of the Northfield community have all contributed to Carltography by submitting hand-drawn maps of the campus and their own comments. While some people document the locations of their personal experiences on these maps, others have created entirely new, imaginative worlds on the campus maps.
Carltography encourages people to decorate a basic Carleton map with their own thoughts, drawings, words, and emotions. The project’s main mission is to display the immense diversity while also fostering a nurturing community. Carltography hopes to continue to establish new connections between individuals of diverse backgrounds, occupations, interests, and passions, ultimately bridging generations of students, alumni, staff, faculty, and families that have been impacted by Carleton College.
“Map the mundane, map the extraordinary. Map the distant, the immediate; the obvious, the hidden. Map your Carleton.” – Carltography
Submissions to Carltography can be found on the project’s website.
Carltography will be on display in the Gould Library every day until March 11, 2015.