from Feminist Technoscience in Practice: Digital Counter Mapping recorded on November 28, 2024

With guest Gökçen Erkılıç, Founder of Coastliners Lab and lecturer at Northeastern University College of Arts Media and Design

 

As mapping has long been entangled with colonial practices of surveillance, control, and power, activists, artists, and visionary thinkers have sought to liberate spatial representation through counter-mapping methods. Despite these efforts, we continue to live with a dominance of digital maps that reduce our spatial relationships to utilitarian navigation, populist political propaganda, or global misinformation. This talk revisits the decolonial mapping possibilities in the works of Coastliner Lab. The talk was followed by a digital co-mapping workshop entitled “you would not take me there.”

 

From Feminist Technoscience in Practice: Digital Storytelling recorded on October 8th, 2024

With guest Dr. Benjamin Worku-Dix, Founding Director of PositiveNegatives, Senior Fellow, SOAS University of London

 

This guest lecture with Dr. Benjamin Worku-Dix which focuses on the foundations of the project PositiveNegatives, his personal experiences working with the United Nations in conflict areas as well as his PhD in Anthropology on adapting complex testimonies into sequential art. In this lecture, Ben introduced us to a few examples of projects that have been interesting and challenging in producing animations and dealing with issues of representation and language.