In times of the pandemic, of social distancing and online conferences, our friend and fellow counter-cartographers at UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil,1 invited Ângela Katuta and Pablo Mansilla Quiñones to discuss “Cartography as an Instrument of Emancipation.” Watch these inciting talks and debate on indigenous cartographies, collective mapping and different ways of being in the world […]
Not-an-Atlas in Granada and Pécs
We would like to share a small throwback to some events that we organised together with TuTela Learning Network earlier this year. On January 24th Not-an-Atlas travelled to Granada as part of the program Haciendo barrio: calles, plazas, viviendas, organized by Ajuntamiento Albaicín. The collective has been working for several years in the neighbourhood of […]
Counter-Mapping Documentary!
We are happy to announce the online release of “This Is Not an Atlas – A Documentary on Counter-Cartographies“. The short documentary was filmed during the book’s release event in Berlin and features Denis Wood, Philippe Rekacewicz, Nermin ElSherif, Bureau d’Études and the Anti-Eviction-Mapping-Project. There is also a version with spanish subtitles, and hopefully with […]
Symposium “Cartographies of the Urban”
Within the framework of the research project “Mapping for Change? Critical Cartography Approaches to drive socio-environmental Urban Transformations” K LAB is organising the international symposium “Cartographies of the Urban: Intersectionality and Climate Change Adaptation” on 16-18 January 2020 in Berlin. Check the public plenary with some great counter-mappers, critical geografers and scholar-activists like Cindi Katz, Catherine D’Ignazio, Philippe Rekacewicz, Punam Khosla and […]
Discussing Not-an-Atlas in Istanbul
We were delighted to present ‘This Is Not an Atlas’ in Istanbul at the Mekanda Adalet Derneği’s lecture series Madacademy. In a workshop we discuss the potential of counter-mapping in struggles for spatial justice with Istanbul based militants, artists and activist researchers, shared mapping experiences and methods. The video of presentation and discussion is now […]
