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What could it mean to think with place? To feel the city? I explore and respond to these questions through deep mapping, or situated, embodied inhabitation as a practice of ongoing and open-ended dialogue with the world. Deep mapping is not defined by opposition so much as articulated through iterative acts of interference with hegemonic forms of representing place, producing geographic knowledge, and rendering spatial research public. This is my theory, at least. My master's research-creation amounts to cultivating a practice of deep mapping, theorizing my interpretation of this capacious practice through practice, and enacting my theory as praxis.

To engage my work, please download the compressed file ubc_2024_november_crandalloral_lily_negative_spaces.zip from the University of British Columbia's institutional open collection of Theses and Dissertations (see open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses). It can be located by searching my name, Lily Demet Crandall-Oral, in the collection's search bar. Once ubc_2024_november_crandalloral_lily_negative_spaces.zip is downloaded to either your Desktop or Downloads folder, unzip it. You can unzip it either by double clicking the file, or control-clicking it and choosing to unzip with a compression software. Once unzipped, enter the folder negative-spaces. Control-click (right-click) the file index.html and "open with" your default web browser. Google Chrome is recommended. If the steps to download my thesis locally are not accessible to you due to technical issues or lack of access to personal computer, the website which constitutes my thesis can also be accessed by navigating to negative-spaces.github.io/.

negative-spaces employs form as a tactic for refiguring the boundaries of intelligibility around what counts as a thesis, as fieldwork, and as intellecting others (i.e., interlocutors). In my research practice, which includes the creation of this webbed site, I am guided by slow scholarship and bricolage as necessary self-accommodations as much as an interference with dominant economies of knowledge production. What is rendered here is not a substitution for practice. Rather, negative-spaces sites a partial account of an ongoing interference praxis.