MAGNETIC TOPOGRAPHIES:
An introduction
Magnetic Topographies1 are:
avian navigations
relational sites
hypnotic imaginaries
activated grounds
collective fields
invisible forces
earthly togetherness
spatial attractions
oppositional
territories
repellent terrain
dynamic cartographies
charged undulations
Magnetic Topographies (Clare Britton, Kenzee Patterson and Therese Keogh) is an interdisciplinary working-group that brings people together with diverse areas of interest and from varying fields, with an underlying focus on collective spatial practice. We’ve hosted reading groups, workshops, walks, meals and public gatherings aimed at creating a space for people to learn from one another and develop collective methods for ethical place-based relations, and collaborative imaginings for the present and future.
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1 Ornithologists believe that some birds contain within their beaks small iron-rich deposits, most likely to be the iron oxide magnetite. These magnetoreceptors enable the birds to sense and respond to the fluctuations of the Earth’s magnetic field. This ability assists birds in deciding on a path to fly and is a component of the so-called avian ‘map’ mechanism. Importantly, the birds couple this faculty with their knowledge of local and regional magnetic topographies, a familiarity with geomagnetic features developed over time and through experience.