Mapping the Necklace Location: The Durham Necklace Park

Showcase exhibition: October 2007, Newcastle

Can you roam a park which doesn't, as such, really exist? Can you investigate compelling experiences you think are there but are so 'privately owned' you've always assumed weren't yours to find? Can you actually map something - a trail, a place, a sense - that is short-lived? And can you decide for yourself what today's process of mapping - given all of our design tools - really means, and capture the experts who will help you make the mapping happen? Yes, you can... in the City of Durham, where the Durham Necklace Park has 'opened for business' - virtually - and where next May you will be able to help create and join teams of other spies, geeks, performers and lone rangers and (un)usual suspects to track, create, design and compose along the 12 miles of the River Wear's 1,000 years of river-linked experience.

Read more background to Mapping the Necklace...

• Meandering the Park
• Geoscrooting in the Park
• The sheltering park
• Interview with its producer

Read more about Dott 07 and sustainable tourism -commissions, showcases, events, festivals – and the part Mapping the Necklace will play in 2007.