exhibition Archives - This is not an atlas

12 October 2019 By Not-An-Atlas

Back in Tübingen

10 years after organising the Solidarität & Kooperation conference in Tübingen, kollektiv orangotango is back in this familiar setting at the Neckar river bank. In 2009 we co-organised the conference, and in 2010 published the edited volume Solidarische Räume & kooperative Perspektiven – Praxis und Theorie in Lateinamerika und Europa (PDF), to exchange and reflect on anticapitalist practices based on cooperation and solidarity. Some of the bonds between European and Latin American activists and scholars consolidated in Solidarität & Kooperation, formed the basis of what should become This Is Not an Atlas some years later.

So, we are delighted to present This Is Not an Atlas in Tübingen, in the occupied cultural center Gartensia. On october 19th, we will present and discuss the Not-an-Atlas project with local activists and inhabitants. For the following weeks, an exhibition of maps will be open for visitors daily.

1 October 2019 By Not-An-Atlas

Not-an-Atlas at the Center for Spatial Justice, Istanbul

We are delighted to present ‘This Is Not an Atlas’ in Istanbul and to discuss the potential of counter-mapping in struggles for spatial justice with Mekanda Adalet Derneği – Center for Spatial Justice.

Mekanda Adalet Derneği, short MAD, combines activist research, participatory practice, and critical education, to create fairer, more democratic, ecological urban and rural spaces; to combine cross-disciplinary academic with resident’s and social movement’s knowledge, and to gather, accumulate and share this knowledge and make it accessible to the public. MAD collaborates with communities in Istanbul and beyond, with urban social movements, environmental justice groups and local governance actors, in struggles for the rights of dispossessed / endangered urban communities and against capitalist urban transformation projects. In this way MAD acts as a watchdog over the crimes against the city and nature and as a democratic bridge between local spatial needs and cross disciplinary expertise. MAD carries out ‘action research’, ‘planning with people’ workshops and ‘design and build’ projects, and publishes the print and online journal beyond.istanbul. Furthermore Beyond Office offers an ideal space for architects, planners, designers, researchers, journalists, social scientists and artists interested in the issues of spatial justice and hosts the Spatial Studies Library.

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1 July 2019 By Not-An-Atlas

Deep Mapping Workshop & Screening of Counter-Cartography Documentary

We are happy to invite all of you to an Not-an-Atlas event with Brett Bloom & Bonnie Fortune (in cooperation with Le Monde Diplomatique – Deutsche Ausgabe) this Tuesday, July 2nd, at the 142 Tage für 99 Jahre! Dauergartenfestival of the Prinzessinnengarten (Prinzenstraße 35-38, 10969 Berlin).

In their workshop about Deep Mapping, Brett Bloom and Bonnie Fortune will address Counter-Cartographies as a way to be conscious of a place in such a manner as to hold multiple layers of understanding of the present moment in a non-reductive and robust manner. This is in contradistinction to the ways we normally speed through and consume the landscapes and places of our petroleum-driven, industrialized lives, and the related sense of self this produces. https://notanatlas.org/maps/deep-maps/

Kollektiv orangotango will exhibit a selection of Counter-Cartographies from the book “This Is Not an Atlas” and present the documentary “This Is Not an Atlas – This Is a Documentary on Counter-Cartographies”. While the exhibition displays a selection of counter-mapping projects from all over the world, the documentary shows how maps influence our understanding of the world, are a useful tool to deconstruct it, can be applied to confront social injustices or create new commons. https://notanatlas.org/

Program (facebook-Event):
20:00 Opening Counter-Maps Exhibition
20:30 Presentation of Not-an-Atlas Project
20:40 Workshop on Deep Mapping with Brett Bloom & Bonnie Fortune
21:45 Screening of Not-an-Atlas Documentary

11 May 2019 By Not-An-Atlas

Back in Berlin

This Is Not an Atlas will be presented next week in Berlin at the Linke Buchtage.
From Friday on a selection of counter-maps will be exposed in the rooms of the book fair and on Sunday (14:00 – 16:00) we will present the project Not-an-Atlas (in German!), show our brand new documentary on counter-cartographies and discuss our recent insights from Latin America as well as future projects.

18 April 2019 By Not-An-Atlas

Not-an-Atlas in Athens

On the 20th of April the Not-an-Atlas will be presented in Athens at the 8th International Conference of Critical Geography ICCG 2019 (https://www.iccg2019.org/programme).

Over the past couple of years kollektiv orangotango has gathered counter-cartographies from all over the world. “This Is Not an Atlas – A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies” shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in the context of art and education. This collection will be presented in Athens in an exhibition, in a documentary on counter-cartographies and in an video message.

Presented by kollektiv orangotango and Geobrujas (https://twitter.com/geobrujas?lang=es)
at Amphitheatre 002,
School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens
42 Patision str., 10682, Athens, Greece.