Veranstaltungskalender Internationales
Canceled: The Bumpy Roads of Maps: Critical and Creative Mapping
Rüppurrer Straße 1a, Haus B
Look on your right and left: Atlases, Google Earth or our car’s navigation system – we constantly produce and rely on maps.
Make a stop and admit: these maps help us explore the unknown and nurture a sense of control.
Take a big U-turn into the history: maps were pieces of craft with images of landscapes, architecture, humans, and imaginary creatures.
Increase your speed and ride back to nowadays: maps lost that story-telling character and are mainly perceived as precise, indisputable representations of reality.
Put on the glasses of a critic: these conventional maps reveal surprising normative connotations, limiting the visibility of diverse social realities.
Be ready for a winding and creative road: we will critically look at maps by using historical, cultural, political and artistic lenses; we will discuss the mapping of human migration as a case study and other social dynamics interesting for you.
If you are up for a wild ride: we will co-create new ideas and prototypes for alternative mapping.
A cautionary tip: sufficient command of English is required in order to actively participate in all activities. Focus will be set on visual rather than written projects.
2-6 LP
Dates:
Tue 08.05.18, 09:15–13:45
Tue 15.05.18, 09:15–13:45
Tue 22.05.18, 09:15–13:45
Tue 29.05.18, 09:15–13:45
Tue 05.06.18, 09:15–13:45
Lecturer:
Lilia Raileanu
PhD Candidate in Sociology,
Sociology Department
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Lilia Raileanu
ZAK | Zentrum für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaft und Studium Generale
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Karlsruhe
Tel: 0721/608 42043
E-Mail: veranstaltungen ∂ zak kit edu
https://www.zak.kit.edu/studium_generale_und_lehre
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