empty streets is happy to announce the launch of neogeography.net, an online forum for the discussion of neogeographic theory and practice.

Coined by the fine folks at Platial, neogeography "is a diverse set of practices that operate outside, or alongside, or in the manner of, the practices of professional geographers. Rather than making claims on scientific standards, methodologies of neogeography tend toward the intuitive, expressive, personal, absurd, and/or artistic, but may just be idiosyncratic applications of 'real' geographic techniques. This is not to say that these practices are of no use to the cartographic/geographic sciences, but that they just usually don’t conform to the protocols of professional practice."

Platial sees neogeography as encompassing urban exploration, site specific sculpture, land/earth art, geo-tagging, guided walks, ephemeral cities, imaginary urbanism, altered maps/radical cartography, travel writing, psychogeography, and place-based photo blogging, but even they wonder what connects all of these activities. neogeography.net would like to know what you think.

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