REMAP

This workshop was a space to hold dialogues on the legacy of colonization, taking the map where America was first named as a departure point. We intervened it in 6 different quadrants, while holding dialogues involving research on the history of America’s colonization, specifically looking at its material evidence (maps, navigational charts, travel diaries). The dialogue was also guided by learning from the field of Art as pedagogy and Embodied pedagogy, an approach that subverts patterns of power in educational settings. Simultaneously, participants were encouraged to intervene a postcard that was previously mailed to them, containing 1/6 of the map where America was first named. After the workshop, I picked up the postcards and re-assembled the map into a complete piece.

BEYOND CARTOGRAPHY - PANDEMIC ECOLOGIES

In this workshop we explored the territories we occupy during the pandemic through mental cartographies. This is cartography beyond geographic accuracy, towards the intuitive mappings of experiences. This framework is inspired by the work of Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze on cartography, and Arturo Escobar’s work on Pluriverse. By researching diagramming and visual thinking as participatory mapping techniques, I developed a methodology to map attributes of territories that are rarely displayed in normative forms of mapmaking, such as networks, emotions and flows, and held dialogues about the tensions between individuality and collectivity, appropriation and reinvention of territories. 
  • See the full accordion book here​​
  • ​Check the academic publication here

THE UNDERLYING PATHS OF PARTICIPATION

In this accordion-book making workshop we explored different meanings of participation and design from lived experiences of design practitioners and students, bridging knowledges in the creative practices with feminist research and action, specifically focusing on notions of reflexivity and positionality.

As a feminist and political practice, the workshop brought together different forms of knowledge that are usually restricted from academic publishing, like memory, feelings body expression and creative making.