MADacademy #24 - A New Social Cartography: This is Not an Atlas with kollektiv orangotango

In the 24th event of #MADacademy, we hosted Paul Schweizer from the kollektiv orangotango, the activist counter-mapping collective, to discuss their book “This Is Not An Atlas” and the potential of mapping for social justice work. "This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement in San Francisco; from defending commons in Mexico to mapping refugee camps with balloons in Lebanon; from slums in Nairobi to squats in Berlin; from supporting communities in the Philippines to reporting sexual harassment in Cairo. This Is Not an Atlas seeks to inspire, to document the underrepresented, and to be a useful companion when becoming a counter-cartographer yourself." To learn more about This is Not an Atlas: https://notanatlas.org/ To learn more about kollektiv orangotango: http://orangotango.info/ To learn more about the #MADacademy program, please visit http://madakademi.mekandaadalet.org To get notified about the #MADacademy events, you can follow us in Twitter and Instagram @mekandaadalet