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Rejection Map
A Situated Topography of Rejection
You are invited to share your experiences with rejection in the city of Rotterdam. Please be aware that your descriptions will be visible for others to read. Your contribution is voluntary and anonymous: You decide what moments and details you want to share and there is no data collected that traces back to you. As rejection is a sensitive topic, you should only share intimate things if you feel comfortable and safe. When sharing moments that involve other individuals, please be mindful that they might not want to be exposed.
1. Open the link to the Annotation Compass. You can see the map of Rotterdam
2. Look at the map and try to think of a moment of rejection you experienced in a certain area in Rotterdam
3. Use your cursor to select this specific area of the map where you can insert your first experience. It can be a quite small area (if you want to select a building) or a bigger one (if your experience includes a whole neighborhood).
4. Please choose your own way to describe your moment of rejection. It can be short or long; formal or informal; personal or distanced; poetic or pragmatic; cryptic or explicit; anecdotal or out of context; using vernacular or academic language, slang or mother tongue; using whole sentences, single words, single letters or punctuation only … Do whatever you feel most comfortable with.
5. Click ”insert“ to save your first description or ”x“ if you want to delete it.
6. Follow the same steps to add more moments of rejection if you like. If several moments relate to the same space or area, they can overlap.
Thank you for sharing!
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