In May 2017, LaRochelle launched the community-based collaborative mapping platform Queering the Map, on which users submit their personal queer experiences to specific locations on a single collective map. LaRochelle has cited the lasting impact of personal memories on their perceptions towards places and Sara Ahmed's ideas on queerness as an orientation towards space as influences behind the project.[1] In February 2018, a cyberattack generating pins with comments in support of U.S. president Donald Trump forced LaRochelle to take down the site, relaunching it in April 2018.[10] Since its inception, users have contributed over 500,000 submissions in 23 languages to the platform.[11]
In 2018, LaRochelle received an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica[12] and was longlisted for the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards[13] and the Lumen Prize for Digital Art[14] for their work on Queering the Map. They have given numerous lectures and workshops on and around the project in Canada, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Switzerland and the United States, including at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City, the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus's School of Architecture in San Juan and the OTHERWISE festival in Zürich.[2]
In 2019, LaRochelle began developing QT.bot, an artificial neural network trained to generate hypothetical queer stories using the data submitted to Queering the Map.[15]
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