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Seminar

Canceled: The Bumpy Roads of Maps: Critical and Creative Mapping

Tuesday, 08 May 2018, 9:15-13:45
Geb. 01.87 SR B 5.26, 5. OG
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

Profile website at ZAK

Speaker
Lilia Raileanu
Organizer
ZAK | Zentrum für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaft und Studium Generale
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Karlsruhe
Tel: 0721/608 42043
Mail: veranstaltungen does-not-exist.zak kit edu
https://www.zak.kit.edu/studium_generale_und_lehre
Number of participants
20
Registration possible from 2018-04-04 12:00 to 2018-05-03 09:00.
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