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Learning to love you more is a website similar to Post Secret, where users submit photo’s or documentation to a single website and it is all collected and posted for the world to see. This site was brought to my attention while we were talking about mapping in New Media Design. At first I didn’t see how this qualified as a map, but another reading we did opened my eyes up and showed me that maps don’t express realistic things. They are all a concept of our imagination. If something shows a territory, time, or tracks a story it is a map.

The website made by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher sets up an assignment/submission relationship between the website and the many different users. An example of one of their prompts is simply to repair something and show a before and after photograph of it. This is a submission from Jen May in Brooklyn, New York. There are many other submissions and they all create a log or track of different people’s take on one assigned thing.

Sadly Learning to Love You More no longer takes submissions. No more conceptual maps!

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