Decolonial Cartography & Community Mapmaking

Join the Brookline Arts Center for a workshop in partnership with ROYA: Decolonial Cartography & Community Mapmaking. Transit and transportation have served as forms of colonial violence, labor exploitation, and environmental disruption. Taking its instigation from artist Inas Halabi’s Hopscotch (the Centre of the Sun's Radiance), which brings listeners on a journey between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Belgium, this workshop will explore other dimensions of violence connected to transit + transportation systems, the borders they create/deflate, and the communities they connect/disconnect. The workshop will use the MBTA map as a survey tool to allow participants to discuss “unseen” realities of the transit + transportation system map and practice a communal reimagining, reorienting, and reconstructing of the map with an eye toward an equitable future. This workshop is free and open to everyone. Materials provided!

Host or Publisher Brookline Arts Center