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This Back-to-front version of the This-Is-Not-an-Atlas world map strives to dismiss the from-above view of the original logo, prioritizing the cartographers condition of being-in-the-world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not a glimpse of the universe, but a cross-section of a yellow beet, refined with a few pixel speckles.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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From April to July 2025 kollektiv orangotango, Digital Geography Working Group (University Halle<\/a>)<\/strong> and StadtLabor (University M\u00fcnster)<\/a><\/strong> realize the collaborative This Is Not an Atlas-Online Lecture Series focusing, in this first edition, on critical mapping practices related to \u201cMapping the earth from inside\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this era marked by multiple crises\u2014pandemics, climate breakdown, soil degradation, etc.\u2014 the Earth transcends its role as a mere stage; it has evolved into \u2013 indeed, it always was \u2013 an active participant, challenging, thus, the conventional perception of the world as „around us“. It is imperative that we reimagine the Earth in the context of our (co)existence. To achieve this, a fundamental shift in orientation is necessary. We have to reposition ourselves within the critical zone and cultivate awareness of the interconnected, more-than-human relationships within the planetary web of life. Mapping a planet under multi-crises condition demands critical cartographers to develop sensitivity, along with ecological affectivity and transcultural tact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This experimental and collaborative lecture series presents and discusses alternative, pluriversal, and speculative approaches to representing the planet we live on. It highlights the shift from classical (from-above) cartographies to a sensitive perspective of „being-in-the-world.“ At its core, it attempts to conceptually go beyond our current satellite images, projections, or critical cartographies. The lecture series revolves around approaches such as Sensorial Mapping, Pluriversal Mapping, Body Mapping, Indigenous Mapping, Deep Mapping and Speculative Mapping, among others, from fields like art, activism, architecture and geography. Our objective is to imagine, and potentially illustrate collectively the Earth from the ground, or simply as a part of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join the lectures here!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download the program here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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22.4. \u201eWe are not above \u2013 Mapping from below\u201d<\/strong>
kollektiv orangotango
16:00 – 18:00 CEST, UTC+02:00
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kollektiv orangotango<\/strong> was founded in 2008. Since then it has been constantly developing through a network of critical geographers, friends and activists who deal with questions regarding space, power and resistance. With our geographical activism, we seek to support processes and actors who instigate social and ecological change by prefiguring social and ecological alternatives. We conduct emancipatory educational work as well as concrete political, ecological and artistic interventions. Through our work we collectively (de)learn how to read space and how to support self-organized processes from below. In 2018 we published \u00abThis Is Not an Atlas<\/a>\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.5.<\/strong> \u201cSensibility Mapping\u201d<\/strong>
Dr. \u00c9lise Olmedo & Prof. S\u00e9bastien Caquard
16:00 – 18:00 CEST, UTC+02:00
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\u00c9lise Olmedo<\/strong> is a postdoctoral researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Passages Laboratory<\/a>) and affiliated with the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University in Montreal (Quebec). Her research explores theoretical and empirical practices to develop sensibility mapping as a creative research tool in social sciences. This approach offers an embodied and processual perspective on places, reflecting geographical perceptions and subjectivity through the interplay of representation and experience. After two postdoctoral researches at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilization, the Mucem in Marseilles (France, 2017-2019) and at Concordia University in Montreal (2019\u20132023), working on the mapping of emotions in life stories, she is now developing a Marie Sklodowska-Curie European project at the Passages Laboratory in Bordeaux (France, 2023-2025). This project focuses on the need of alternative maps in collaboration with indigenous communities in French Guiana.

S\u00e9bastien Caquard<\/strong> is a geographer and a mapmaker interested in mapping stories to better understand the complex relationships that exist between places, narratives, memories and maps. His research lies at the intersection of Cartography, Oral History and the Humanities. As the founder and director of the Geomedia Lab<\/a>, he has led the development of Atlascine<\/a>, an open source mapping application designed to map collections of stories and to reflect on cartographic processes and practices<\/a>. Atlascine has been used to produce several online atlases, including The Atlas of Rwandan Life Stories<\/a> that has been exhibited at the Kigali Memorial Genocide in June 2024. S\u00e9bastien Caquard is a professor in the department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University (Montr\u00e9al Tiohti\u00e0:ke).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

watch the recorded lecture here:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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