Weaving memory into feminist infrastructure
and space
The Geochicas 8M Atlas as a transregional feminist archive
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Technology as a tool and process of frameworks and experiences that emerge from the appropriations and uses themselves, understood as cultural practices in community.
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"...maps represent the world through an ideological filter, they are loaded with internal tensions, they constitute classic examples of the relationship between power and knowledge, and are always inscribed in broader political contexts."
J. B. Harley (1990)
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Data are constructions that must be understood from different instances:
from the subjectivity of those who produce them
from an ethical perspective towards those affected by said production
from their openness and standardization to the ontological and semantic processes for their interpretations
Variable |
Composition |
Geographic data
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Specific representations of space |
The map
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Series of agreements for the interpretation of space |
The process |
Dialogue on what we understand as spatiality and how it should be represented and interpreted |
Space and community |
Dialogues of knowledge and experiences lived in space |
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THE GEOCHICAS 8M ATLAS
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Tells other stories
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Weaves networks
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Confabulates collective plans