What do weather patterns have to do with slavery? And what is the relation between ospreys and the peat industry?

The aim of this research is to explore the multiplicity of stories that can be found in Morecambe Bay and understand how these relate to each other to construct (and change over time) its identities. To do so, we will invite a group of researchers and practitioners in various fields to a walk in Morecambe Bay, and a collaborative map-making workshop. During the walk and the workshop we will collect and make sense of heterogeneous sets of qualitative and quantitative data. The main objective of the project is to produce an initial prototype of a collaboratively built cartography that will comment on these data. The design of this cartography will constitute a research project in itself, as participants will not only focus on the content, but also propose and design ways in which this can be effectively and meaningfully represented.