Further to hearing Donna Haraway talking about her work, consider how you talk about yours. (Spend 15 – 20 mins reflecting on this – what’s working well, what might be working better.) Also, and importantly, consider where the world should ‘speak for itself’ and why.
Blogging.\
So basically this week i have communicated with yeh nah and progressed her research. I am going to conduct an interview with my grandmother about the item using questions that yeh nah has written for me!
Proposal.
Progress your map/poster/diagram on intersectionality (See the Unit 2 Assessment Brief for more information.)
Be thinking about your presentation. NB: This should focus on your cohort’s work. (See the Unit 2 Assessment Brief for more information.)
Anticipate the kind of impact you want your work for MA Intercultural Practices to have -How can you make it relevant to your communities or those explored in your practice?
MAIP is the perfect course for me because I wanted to philosophize my practice and dive deeper into my aesthetics and identity. I don’t see a specific aim for my practice other than the fact that Its an exploration and expression of my identity.
The way that my art is relevant to a community I’m part of could be the representation of symbols and aesthetics from the culture I was raised in, or an expression of my lens as a woman.
Ideas for map:
Write about
culture in Cyprus, traditional cuisine, raised with grandparents, cooking, family, traditional fashion, fashion, art, divorces parents, drawing as an expression, cartoons, film- moving image, friends, cohourt.
RESEARCH + GO INTO DETAIL.
Read + Watch + Listen + Prepare:
Prepare a one to three-minute update on the materials you received from your cohort and how you’re working with them.
Videos from last week’s post work well with this!
Donna Haraway, Telling Stories for Earthly Survival byFabrizio Terranova (find it through the library, on Docuseek.
Cyborgs and Identity:
Explores the concept of cyborgs as a fusion of human and machine.
Discusses how cyborg theory challenges traditional notions of identity and embodiment.
Highlights the potential of cyborgs to disrupt binary categories such as gender and race which i find super interesting!
Companion Species:
Emphasizes the importance of relationships between humans and animals.
Discusses the concept of “companion species” and the ways in which humans and animals co-evolve together.
Advocates for more respectful and reciprocal interactions between humans and other species! And I agree with her so much! She is amazing
Situated Knowledges:
Argues against the idea of objective, universal knowledge, which as we explore in MAIP is truly not a thing.
Discusses how knowledge is always situated within specific social, cultural, and historical contexts- again MAIP coded-.
Emphasizes the importance of acknowledging diverse perspectives and experiences in knowledge production.
Environmentalism:
Addresses environmental issues such as climate change, species extinction, and environmental degradation.
Advocates for more ethical and sustainable ways of relating to the environment.-i love her-
Explores the interconnectedness of humans, animals, and ecosystems.
Critique of Essentialism:
Critiques essentialist notions of identity, including fixed categories of gender, race, and sexuality!!!!!
Advocates for fluid and intersectional understandings of identity.
Discusses the importance of embracing complexity and diversity in discussions of identity.
Political Activism:
Discusses her own experiences as an activist and scholar.
Advocates for political engagement and social change.
Emphasizes the role of storytelling and narrative in shaping political consciousness and activism.
Legacy and Future Directions:
Reflects on her own intellectual journey and contributions.
Discusses the ongoing relevance of her work in contemporary discussions about science, technology, feminism, and the environment.
Explores future directions for feminist theory, environmentalism, and posthumanism.
Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment, animals, and social relations.
Please ensure that you take some time to blog about your experience of schematizing your positionality + Encountering Difference; Understanding Yourself as Other
Ken G Brealey, ‘Mapping them ‘out’: Euro-Canadian cartography and the appropriation of the Nuxalk and Ts’ilhqot’in First Nations’ territories, 1793-1916′ (TBC – on order)
This text talks about how maps are not just simple drawings, but they represent the beliefs, truths, and power of the cultures that make them. It says that maps are created by people and used to establish and maintain territories, often serving the interests of certain groups over others. In colonial contexts, maps can marginalize some cultural groups while empowering others. The author explores how maps were used to dispossess the original inhabitants of British Columbia, from the time of George Vancouver and Alexander MacKenzie to the Indian Reserve maps of 1916. This analysis sheds light on how maps played a role in the colonization of the region and has implications for understanding land claims today.
Gerardus Mercator was a Protestant scholar from Flanders; he published his map in 1569, to help European merchants plot routes to distant shores.
The text discusses the ideas of two different maps and their implications on how we understand the world. The Mercator map, commonly used, is criticized for its distortions, while the Dymaxion map by Buckminster Fuller offers a different perspective. Fuller’s map aimed to show a more accurate representation of the Earth’s surface, emphasizing cooperation and equality. The text also talks about artist Oyvind Fahlström’s World Map, which highlights political tensions and power struggles. It then discusses the work of the Bureau d’Etudes, a conceptual group that creates maps showing the connections between global power players, revealing the complex economic and political landscape.
The text reflects on the role of artists in representing alternative viewpoints and resisting oppressive systems.
It concludes by questioning the effectiveness of artistic practices in challenging the dominant economic and political structures. (V interesting)
How could you successfully represent an alternative, radically democratic experience?
On the fringes of the art world, a group of urbanists has created one of the most impressive systems of visual representation to appear in recent years: USE, or the “Uncertain States of Europe,” a project by Stefano Boeri and Multiplicity.
The basic premise is that borders are ungraspable, that architectural programs and urban limits are unstable
“To resist is not to be against, any more, but to singularize, all and any acts of resistance are acts of creation and not acts of negation.”
Writes Suely Rolnik, reflecting on the changing meanings of artistic practice since the Great Refusal of the 1960s.
Can we imagine artistic representations of self-organizing processes, in open confrontation with the economic game? “Rules oppose and derail subjectivity, loosen the imprinted circuits of the individual,” wrote Oyvind Fahlström. Only then does a deeper territory emerge, a more complex interplay. Power lines / radical democracy.
My understanding of this:
This sentence is questioning whether we can envision artworks that depict self-organizing systems challenging the economic status quo. It suggests that rules imposed by society hinder personal freedom and creativity, but breaking these rules can lead to a deeper understanding and more intricate interactions. The mention of “power lines / radical democracy” emphasizes the potential for art to engage with political themes and advocate for a more democratic society, where power is distributed more equally among individuals.
Today, Indigenous peoples are remapping and renaming their homelands to assert their presence on the land, revitalize their languages, and share their stories, histories, and knowledge about their homelands. Maps are also used to educate future generations, share Indigenous knowledge, and assert title over their territories through land claims processes and in the courts.
Through these and other initiatives, Indigenous peoples are putting their perspectives, stories, and histories on the map for future generations.
Jorge Luis Borges
My understanding is that the art of cartography as a documentation of how people lived in an empire became ensticts because it was impractical and gave power to the people “beggars and animals”
WHEN FORAGING FOR MAPPING AND COUNTER MAPPING I FOUND THIS.
I missed this lecture but thankfully it was recorded so here are my notes on the recording:
For mapping here are the learning outcome.
OUR UNDERSTANDING OF OUR PSOTIONALITY IN RELATION TO PEERS AND OTHERS.
Submit as PDF/ VIDEO?
Working across intercultural and transcultural.
OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH OURSELVES AND WITH OTHERS.
Include co-hort ( TONIZITO)
IN RELATION TO THE CREATIVE PRACTISE OF OTHERS.
Look at others maps and promote curiosity.
Communicate the coordinates and experience that shaped you as you are as a practitioner.
YOU ARE NOT THE AUDIENCE! (research vs Me-search)
EVIDENCE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE VALUE OF AND FROM INTERCULTURAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CO-OPERATION.
unesco systems thinking competency
Assessment criteria:
ENGAGEMENT IN PRACTICE INFORMED BY COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF DIVERSE COMPLEX PRACTICES CONSEPTS AND THEORIES.
USE ART PHILOSOPHY AND QUESTIONS.
COMBINE LEARNING OUTCOME+ ASSESMENT CRITERIA and create a map that uses both.
Remember the social identity map?
how is it a comprehensive analysis? – it isnt its very surface.
diverce and complex context- WE GOT IT WE CAN SEE IT WHEN USING THE S.I.P
THE S.I.P IS NOT COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS. we need to evaluate topics MUCH MORE AND IN MUCH more depth!!!! Also we dont want little islands of info. we want to see how they interrelate.!!!!!!!
WE ARE NOT JUST TRYING TO SHOW FRED WHO WE ARE. WE ARE TRYING TO EXPLORE WHAT MAKES US ! US! AND WHAT LEAD TO OUR IDENTITY AND BY EXTENTION PRACTISE TO EVOLVE IN THIS WAY. AND IN RELATION TO MY PEERS (how would i relate it to my peers?)
i mean i think my relation to my peers is MAIP. AND INTERCULTURAL PRACTICES.
Marsha: What is comprehensive here is my practice of comprehensive analysis. ( what D: )
(excuse the typos i am writing as i watch the recording)
THESE ARE ONLY STEP ONE : EMPATHY MAP, SIP. ETC. -> much to impersonal and simple, and GENERAL.
Where is the evidence??????????????????? (what evidence :”( )
SHARE THE RESEARCH! its not me-search. GIVE MORE INSIGHT TO MARSHA AND FRED. SHARE MY RESEARCH.
We are looking for a hybrid poster /map /diagram
THE RESEARCH POSTER: a genre of cultural expression within research culture, something that often exists in relationship to research presentation. the space where they exhibit their research through posters.
POSTER IS MIXTURE OF TEXT- TABLES-GRAPHS AND IMAGES.
Answer these questions:
what is the most important and astounding finding from my research
how can i visually share my research with conference attendees? should i use charts graphs photos/ images?
what kind of information can i convey during my talk that will complement my poster.
YOUR POSTER SHOULD BE DOING THE TALKING FOR YOU!!!! So preferably no recording then.
Miro/ red string police thing is what we are going for– i am sticking to this since the start and ill see how it goes.
Poster:
TEXT
IMAGE
GRAPHIC DEVICES
SOUND
TEXTURE
MAKES COMPLEX INFORMATION CLEAR AND ACCESIBLE
YOU ARE NOT IN THE VICEO/ PDF
DECONTEXTUALISED
pijina p exun oi economy mfs giana kamoun present kt
Diagram:
should show what this is for/ what its for
what is the aim
you dont know where to begin where to end
SHOW THE VIEWER THE ROUTE TO TAKE WITH THEIR EYES
EVERYTHING SHOULD BE INTERCONNECTED, NOT LIKE A STEP1-2-3-4 BUT LIKE INFINITE COMBO
