Last year, modTEXAS launched an Instagram-based mapping project, "Mapping Mod," inviting participants to seek-out modern sites based on prescribed monthly themes such as public spaces, education, and commercial, then photograph and share them.
The response was great: more than 2,600 images were shared using the hastag #modtexas. Working with local real estate publication Candy's Dirt, many of these locations have now been mapped. The mapping portion is still underway, but it is exciting to see the wealth of modern sites that have been documented thus far.
Based on this success, and because there are still many more midcentury Texas resources out there to document, Mapping Mod will continue through 2020. Themes will alternate monthly. Check back here each month as the next theme is announced.
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January |
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If your organization would like to participate in Putting Modernism on the Map in Texas, or if you would like to start a similar initiative in your own state, contact Docomomo US at info@docomomo-us.org for an introduction to the project organizers and the monthly themes selected for 2020.
