A disturbing silence Knowledge is power and the power to conceal property relations in housing is widely practiced in Switzerland, despite laws supposedly guaranteeing transparency. The housing sector and its attached real-estate industry cement inequalities and present a well-hidden secret in plain sight. Real Estate is the place to sink the “gold” of overburdening wealth […]
Emancipatory Mapmaking: Lessons from Kibera
Modern mapmaking in the global South has been deeply entwined with the colonial endeavor of producing legible spaces. Critical Geography has emphasized the role of maps in governing populations and their politics of in/visibility, especially concerning marginalized communities. What else can maps do? How can communities and activists deploy mapping technologies as tools that support […]
Mapping Postkolonial
mapping.postkolonial.net The map is a cooperation of [muc] münchen postkolonial, Zurich-based Art Project Labor k3000 and the Munich-based Ecumenical Office for Peace and Justice e.V.. The project was funded by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (Stiftung EVZ). We are a team of researchers, activists, artists and programmers/software engineers. Our academic backgrounds are somewhere between […]
You Must Buy before You Can Fly
The following maps are the result of a long-term observation process that I made in many airports mainly in Europe. At the same time they represent a symbol. The Observation Process The maps show how the general public, and specifically the passengers, are moving in a space carefully designed by an “invisible” force. By this […]
Webpage Launch
Hello counter cartographers from all over. Today we are happy to launch notanatlas.org! Until the release of the book on October 20th we will upload a new counter cartography project (almost) every day. We will do so until all the counter-maps in our publication “This Is Not an Atlas” (transcript 2018) are online. From October 20th […]
