Join a team from the Departments of History and Global Health and Social Medicine on Wednesday 21 May from 13:00-16:00 in S8.08 (8^th floor of the Strand building) for an immersive health mapping exercise.

The nebulous relationship between bodies and environments is something that has been recognised throughout history. To nineteenth century industrialists, biological reproduction mirrored the capital investment and the growth of the factory workforce. For John Harvey Kellogg, American businessman, physician and breakfast cereal magnate, the digestive system seen as a subway line. To late twentieth century American designers and filmmakers Charles and Ray Eames, bodies were reflections of inner and outer worlds, from microstructures of individual carbon atoms to the wider universe.

Different health traditions understand the relationship between interior bodies and outside worlds in different ways, echoing understandings of geographies both internal and external. And we each individually probably do the same, reflecting different views of nature and our place in it.

In this workshop, we invite participants to draw their own maps. What is the connection between the body and the world it inhabits? Where might your map place you, your body, and your context and how and why? This exercise will be facilitated by members of the Healthy Skepticism project in partnership with Livingmaps --a collective of researchers, community activists, artists and mapmakers using participatory counter-mapping to help communities drive social change.

To keep our energy and excitement up, light refreshments will be served.

This event is free. However, since capacity is limited, we ask all interested participants to RSVP by securing a "Save a Spot!" ticket.