Countermap.land IG Live + Q&A Session
Countermap.land is a crowd-sourced project which locates tangible spaces and objects within the territory known as “Canada”, represented by figures and events – be they political, social, economic, or otherwise – that have contributed to the dispossession of life, memory, territory, and resources of BIPOC communities, both past and present. We recognize that maps and the associated technologies of cartography are inseparable from the colonial project; they describe and segment space, defining boundaries to movement, the exploitable resources of landscapes, and the reaches of imperial power. We hope through this work to appropriate these tools to define new collective histories.
ARCA along with 221A and The Architecture Lobby Tkaronto, have formed a Research Partnership to produce 15 regional engagement workshops which will inform the development of a new digital platform, countermap.land. Each of the workshops will be designed as counter-mapathons, which will develop the first data layer of countermap.land. And, the feedback and learnings gained from these events will help to inform the functionality, submission vetting process, and the interface of the website.
Countermap.land is built by Victor Temperano and Mapster, the team building native-land.ca.
More about countermap.land: https://221a.ca/research-partnership/...
Timestamps
00:00 - Start
01:37 - Introductions
06:50 - Project overview
09:02 - Q&A session open
10:02 - How to negotiate creating an anti-colonial project within colonial structures.
11:50 - What is the geographic area that a single workshops is expected to cover? City-wide or a neighbourhood in a city?
15:08 - How do you envision countermap.land to be used? What kinds of communities will use this tool?
26:21 - Update on project's Discord
28:06 - What is interesting about the project from ARCA's point of view and what does it bring to self-organized artist-driven culture?
40:32 - Closing and contact information