Alex Steinberg
Alex Steinberg is a curriculum and instruction specialist, educator, and digital practitioner whose work explores the intersection of technology, learning, and creative practice. He has taught history, webdesign, technology and society, AI literacy, and designed curriculum in K–12 education, with a particular interest in digital mapping, spatial storytelling, and the ways technology can change how we understand and represent the world. He has previously lead deep mapping workshops for students and has explored projects using ArcGIS to explore local history, demographic change, and place.
He is currently exploring “deep mapping” as a creative practice that brings together community, geography, history, memory, research, and personal experience."
Deep Mapping
with Alex Steinberg
What makes a space into a place?
Deep mapping is a multidisciplinary approach to exploring the layers that give a place meaning. A deep map might include maps and databases alongside photography, writing, painting, archival materials, interviews, or site-specific work. Rather than simply documenting a place, deep mapping asks us to look closely at the histories, stories, memories, people, and experiences that shape it.
Over six weeks, we will explore Maplewood through a creative practice that brings together community, geography, history, memory, research, and personal experience. Working both individually and collaboratively, participants will contribute different perspectives and forms of knowledge to a shared deep map of Maplewood—one that reflects both the town’s history and the community as it exists today.
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Workshops
All workshops are from 6:30pm - 8pm
Wednesday, October 7th, 6:30pm - 8pm at The 1978 Arts Center
Wednesday, October 14th, 6:30pm - 8pm at The 1978 Arts Center
Wednesday, October 21st, 6:30pm - 8pm at Durand Hedden
Wednesday, October 28th, 6:30pm - 8pm at at Maplewood Memorial Library
Wednesday, November 4th, 6:30pm - 8pm at The 1978 Arts Center
Wednesday, November 11th, 6:30pm - 8pm at The 1978 Arts Center
The workshop meets for 1.5 hours each Wednesday, October 7–November 11, with work from the workshop culminating in a gallery exhibition in early December.
Open to ages 13–113. No previous art, mapping, or research experience is required.