In November and December of 2023, we led a three weeks workshop-cycle on collective critical mapping at the University of Padova, in the frame of the Course Geographical Space: Concepts, tools and practices of the Master’s Degree in Local Development, with international students coming from various parts of the world, with different personal and academic […]
Counter-Mapping for Resistance and Solidarity in the Philippines
Mapping is a deeply political practice. Especially when considering how it is embedded in the reproduction of power in the Philippine context. Historically, mapping can be linked to colonial exploits and imperial pursuits as it attempts to represent colonized populations and places within a legible territory conducive for exploitation and control (see Harris & Hazen, […]
C/Artographies of Positionality
“This is a map! Is it? It’s a drawing! Is it really a map? It is!” Welcome Confusion! Confusion helps us to get our thoughts, emotions and boundaries moving and opens spaces for discussions and reflections on multiple levels. Being engaged as scholars in a neoliberalizing academy, we participate in the production and distribution of […]
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 […]
Visualizing the Counter-Narratives of Port Said
History and maps are both social constructions produced by people who attempt to normalize their arguments. But what happens when this process of production becomes collaborative? And when arguments reflect the counter-narratives of people, and not authorities? What happens when primary sources of history are used instead of their interpretation of historians? Could this contribute […]
