Deep Mapping: A Tool for Writing Place

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Deep mapping is a literary technique used by travel and environmental writers to create a multilayered portrait of a place, including not only a description of the place, but also its natural and cultural history, as well as the writer's personal experience with and in that place. In this seminar, we will read excerpts from the foundational deep map in literature, William Least Heat-Moon's "Prairyerth," as well as examples by other contemporary authors. Mostly, we we work on writing our own deep maps, first by visiting sites in and around UCSB campus and then by creating multimodal representations of those places using ArcGIS StoryMaps.