In Search of an Engaged Cartography - Materialities and Practices of Collective Critical Mapping

随着对批判性地图学的争论，自20世纪90年代以来，一种常见的地图批评、解构和批判性分析地图学和制图实践的经典已经发展起来。同时，在科学、艺术、教育工作和政治干预中出现了各种形式的批判性制图实践。此外，自2000年代以来，参与式制图制作出现了显著扩张。如今，参与式窃听已成为世界各地政府和民间社会倡议的一个组成部分。但是，对于具体的制图方法和设计手段，通常没有详细的阐述和体现。考虑到对参与概念的批判性讨论，这是特别有问题的，因为制图所承诺的“参与”有被工具化和成为纯粹的品牌工具的风险。这就是这个研究项目的切入点，通过对参与概念和参与性绘图的常见方法的批评，并将它们提交给系统的分析。与这种批评相反，这里使用了一种基于关于非殖民化和批判教学法的辩论的参与概念，特别是贝尔胡克参与教学法。根据行动研究的概念，这种方法将绘图视为集体知识生产的过程。该项目的目的是在不同的经验应用中发展制图方法和设计手段，这些方法和设计手段符合非殖民主义批判性集体制图-参与制图的要求。该项目通过在阿雷格里港、巴塞尔和那不勒斯的三个实证案例研究中，在活动家、艺术和教育背景下的多地点行动研究中，伴随着和分析集体批判性测绘的方法和设计手段，对制图背景、风格和技术的新多样性进行了实证调查。在这样做的过程中，它有助于讨论批判性制图方法，以及关于参与性研究、艺术创作方法、变革教育和非殖民知识生产的辩论。虽然以往的研究是对单一的具体制图方法和设计工具进行实证检验和讨论，但对参与式和集体制图的不同方法和设计手段的系统研究仍然很突出。缩小这一差距是这里提出的研究项目的目的。

With debates on critical cartography a canon of common map criticism, deconstruction and critical analyses of cartographic and mapping practice has developed since the 1990s. Simultaneously, diverse forms of critical mapping practice have emerged in science, art, educational work and political intervention. Moreover, since the 2000s, there has been a remarkable expansion of participatory cartographic production. Today, participatory apping is an integral part of both governmental and civil society initiatives in various contexts worldwide. However, there is usually no detailed elaboration and reflection of the specific mapping methods and means of design. Given the critical discussion of the concept of participation, this is especially problematic insofar as the "participation" promised by cartography runs the risk of being instrumentalised and becoming a mere branding tool. This is where this research project comes in, by taking up the criticism of the concept of participation and the common methods of participatory mapping and submitting them to a systematic analysis. In contrast to this criticism, a concept of participation based on debates about decoloniality and critical pedagogy is used here, drawing in particular on bell hooks engaged pedagogy. According to the concept of action research this approach conceives of mapping as a process of collective knowledge production. The aim of the project is to develop mapping methods and means of design in different empirical applications that correspond to the claim of a decolonial-critical collective cartography - engaged cartography. The project takes up demands to empirically investigate the new diversity of mapping contexts, styles and techniques by accompanying and analysing the methods and means of design of collective critical mapping in a multi-sited action research in activist, artistic and educational contexts in three empirical case studies, in Porto Alegre, Basel and Naples. In doing so, it contributes to discussions on methods of critical mapping as well as to debates on participatory research, artistic-creative methods, transformative education and decolonial knowledge production in geography. While previous research empirically tests and discusses single specific mapping methods and design tools, a systematic investigation of different methods and means of design of participatory and collective mapping is still outstanding. Closing this gap is the aim of the research project proposed here.