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SUMMARY:Agora 02 - IDENTITY : BREAKING MAPS REDRAWING BORDERS
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DESCRIPTION:Léopold Lambert\,  Nitin Bathla\,  Bárbara Maçães Costa
 \, Denise Bertschi\nThe identitarian construct of our societies and terr
 itories has been violently shaped by the idea of the border and the cartog
 raphic technologies that draw and convey it.\n\n“From the economic impor
 t of European world maps of the 15th century to the racist introduction of
  redlining to American urban plans throughout the 20th century\; to the ev
 olution of those plans in zoning\, real estate redefinitions of neighbour
 hoods\, and displacement through gentrification\, maps have been used to 
 perpetuate power or to grow it. There has historically been a politics in
 herent to mapping: maps are drawn from very specific viewpoints and princ
 iples\, and are typically literal visualizations of the worldviews of thos
 e in power.”\nHistoriographies\, The Decolonial mapping toolkit\, Patric
 k Jaojoco\n\nOperating by differentiation and alienation as social and pol
 itical machines of control and domination\, these planning tools\, these w
 ays of projecting are anchored in our education.\nIt is urgent to become a
 ware of the agendas embedded in them.\nHow could maps be used to strengthe
 n the knowledge of our complex and coercive world? How could these technol
 ogies be hijacked to serve a different set of values towards ecological\, 
 economical\, political and social justice?\nHow could the relationships be
 tween maps and power be reclaimed to force a more democratic social evolut
 ion ? How could the mapping toolkit be flipped upside down? How could dr
 awing and mapping be used to render visible suppressed realities?\nHow cou
 ld the process of the making of the map be put in the hands of the coloniz
 ed\, the invisibilized\, the enclosed and the exteriorised?\nHow could it 
 decolonize our understanding of space and its representation?\nWhat could 
 going away from the hyper defined image of cartography today bring ?\nHow
  could we use this change to represent qualities of territories and space 
 beyond the quantitative ?\nHow could we imagine mapping that would account
  for lived realities\, struggles\, perceptions\, experiences ?\n\nThe Atel
 ier Magazine is glad to welcome Léopold Lambert\, Nitin Bathla\, Bárb
 ara Maçães Costa and Denise Bertschi to discuss these topics. \n\nLéop
 old Lambert is an architect\, writer\, and editor in chief of The Funambu
 list\, a magazine that engages with the politics of space and bodies. Nit
 in Bathla is an architect\, artist\, researcher\, and educator currently w
 orking on his PhD at ETH entitled Delhi without Borders focusing on invest
 igating circular migration to Indian cities as an emerging phenomenon of e
 xtended urbanization. Bárbara Maçães Costa  architect\, artist\, rese
 archer\, and lecture doctoral candidate at EPFL organising a seminar on t
 he subject of cartography\, drawing\, landscape theory and environmental a
 esthetics. Denise Bertschi is an artist-researcher and a doctoral candi
 date at EPFL in collaboration with HEAD–Genève\, where she works at the
  intersection of artistic research and Swiss colonial history.\n\n\n\nZoom
  ID : 891 3623 4108
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