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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
A New Social Cartography
Through the use of social mapping techniques, the research work of the New Social Cartography of the Amazon Project (PNCSA) seeks to analyze the differentiated processes of territorialization which are currently underway in the Amazon region. In doing so, the work focuses on the relationship between these processes and the emergence of collective identities embedded […]
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