Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0063573

Zusammenfassung

Maps are not neutral. They reflect and perpetuate power relations and have always been political instruments influencing our understandings of the world. In contemporary attempts and struggles for advancing socio-environmental change in cities towards a more just and environmentally conscious 'urban', maps are being used in various ways and by a wide variety of actors to contest and re-shape the status-quo. From slum dwellers putting their neighbourhood on the map to claim their 'right to the city', to scientific mapping of food or energy production potentials of urban roofs and antisp...