Zine Bakery released the zine, Footpath for the People? A Zine Companion to a Data Quilt about the Appalachian Trail by Claudia Berger (Pratt Institute), a companion piece to “Footpath for the People?” analog data quilt, created as part of Berger’s Virtual Artist-in-Residency with the University of Virginia’s Scholars’ Lab. The Zine Bakery post describes the background and purpose of the data quilt and its accompanying zine:
This quilt is an exploration of the Appalachian Trail and who the American outdoors was made for. American national parks were founded on the idea that nature can only exist without people, and that to preserve it all people who were living in it (Indigenous, Black, and immigrant communities) had to be displaced. Since the parks were founded with these beliefs, it is likely still ingrained into its design and who feels comfortable in them. Through the pages of this zine, and the blocks of the quilt, we will look at the history and present of the Appalachian Trail (AT) and the people who travel it.
This zine serves as a resource and example to follow for data physicalization and making in DH.
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This post was produced through a cooperation between Carla Brooks, Sean Crowe, Kelly Karst, Lorena O'English, Miranda Phair, and Mimosa Shah (Editors-at-Large), Caitlin Christian-Lamb and Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara (Editors for the week), Claudia Berger, Ruth Carpenter, Linsey Ford, Pamella Lach, Molly McGuire, Hillary Richardson, Christine Salek, and Rachel Starry (dh+lib Review Editors), and Tom Lee (Technical Editor).