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 […]
The Materiality Language of Cartography
In this project, we consider textile maps as part of the broader topic of sensitive mapping. By retracing geographical research carried out in Morocco between 2010 and 2016, this article introduces an evolving mapmaking project with women from the Sidi Youssef Ben Ali neighbourhood in Marrakech – more commonly known as Sidi Yusf, a city […]
Information Overload
1-2-3 – it looks so harmless on the map: a thin line that runs eastwards, then takes a sharp 90-degree turn northwards and again 90-degrees eastwards up to the edge. Yet on the ground, the line is a concrete wall, built to demarcate the boundary between two worlds, the “legal” and the “illegal”, the accepted […]
Knitted Flood Wall
The Knitted Flood Wall, 2012, was a socially engaged participatory art project initiated by Irish Visual Artist Martina O’Brien in collaboration with The Ballsbridge Dodder Residents Association, Dublin. It was founded in the aftermath of the flooding of the River Dodder, Dublin, Ireland, 24 October 2011. The project witnessed the creation of a 45 feet […]
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 […]
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