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Mapping for change

Map Fest Evening 1

Map Fest took place at Mediamatic on July 6, 8 and 9. Map Fest brings together kindred spirits to explore, create, define and oppose maps.

We started with an evening on Mapping for Change with Wietske Maas, Christian Nold, Malkit Shoshan and Annelys de Vet. Independent curator Nat Muller hosted the evening.

Met:
Wietske Maas, Malkit Shoshan, Annelys de Vet, Christian Nold, Nat Muller

About

Mapping for Change is about defying and opposing existing structures. It decentralizes power, handing it back to individuals and allowing local communities to organize themselves autonomously. Alternative maps and visualizations are used to challenge and change official policy. They allow for multiple views and voices to live side by side.

Click here for a review of Mapping for Change.

Malkit Shoshan presents at Map Fest 2010, July 6

Speakers

Malkit Shoshan (FAST)

Malkit Shoshan is an Israeli architect based in The Netherlands. Since 2004 she has been the director of the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory. FAST uses architecture and planning to overcome the conflict of causality, fight injustices, and raise public debate on the issue of human rights violation through planning. Malkit will be telling us about Atlas of the Conflict Israel - Palestine, a publication in which she maps the processes and mechanisms behind the rise of the Israeli state over the past 100 years.

Atlas of the Conflict Israel-Palestine by Malkit Shoshan

Annelys de Vet

Annelys de Vet is the head of the design department of the Sandberg Instituut. As a graphic designer, she is heavily involved in the public and political discourse concerning the cultural representation of national identity. Annelys will be discussing her subjective atlases. In these publications, she maps a country, region or political entity in collaboration with local residents.

Annelys de Vet presents at Map Fest 2010, July 6
Subjective atlas of Serbia, Annelys de Vet

Christian Nold

Christian Nold is a London based artist, designer and educator. His projects deal with social, political and environmental innovation. Christian will be telling us about his latest project, Bijlmer Euro, a local currency designed for Amsterdam Zuid Oost. The complimentary currency instigates meetings and social connections, supporting community development.

Christian Nold presents at Map Fest 2010, July 6
Bijlmer Euro by Christian Nold

Wietske Maas

Wietske Maas' work focuses on the co-existence of plants, humans and animals in cities, and on the city as a natural, autonomous source of food. Tonight Wietske will talk about edible geography of the city, based on her most recent research for Casco’s Grand Domestic Revolution. She will talk about recipes as a meridian map of the vegetative underworld of Utrecht.

Wietske Maas presents at Map Fest 2010, July 6

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This American Life

did a radio show on mapping in 1998. It talks about a mapmaker's different ways of mapping him neighborhood by showing the pumpkins during Halloween, the pools of light from lamp posts, all the graffiti in the streets, et cetera. But also mapping sound, smell, taste and touch.

Really fun to listen to if you cannot get enough of maps.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/110/Mapping

Evelyn Grooten
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5 jul 2010, 20:12
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