GeoComunes is a collective that carries out research and collaborative mapping for the defense of common goods. We understand common goods as all elements that are integrated within the process of social reproduction and which by that form the very fabric of freedom and any possible life in the community. Our cartographic perspective includes two […]
Far Rock
This map is based on interviews with AnneMarie, who, at thirteen years old, was struggling with teen pregnancy and her unexpected success as a young movie actress. AnneMarie’s story was the inspiration for Hannah Weyer’s novel On The Come Up. The map depicts Far Rockaway, the isolated neighborhood on the outskirts of New York City […]
A View from Above
Lebanon currently houses 53 percent of a total of approximately 450,000 registered Palestinian refugees (UNRWA, 2016). Bourj Al Shamali is located three kilometers east of Tyre in the south of Lebanon; approximately 22,000 registered refugees live here. From the original 7,000 refugees who fled or were expelled from their homes in 1948, the majority of […]
Tyneside’s Skateworlds and their Transformation
Post-representation cartography is an approach to mapping which emphasizes the processes involved in map-making. The emphasis shifts from “the ‘rules’ of map design and techniques of cartographic production, and/or documenting and deconstructing the underlying ideologies and agendas of maps, to a processural perspective concerned with how mappings and cartographic design, technique and ideology emerge time […]
Mapping Safe Passages
During the long summer of migration in 2015, the importance of digital tools for transnational movements of people has been widely acknowledged. While states have been using geographical information and maps to control movements of people across space for a long time, transnational migrants and support network have found creative ways of using online mapping […]
