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> territories, landscapes and temporary spaces

will look at the way places are being constituted through political and social transformation that is no longer bound to one place, while spatial and geographic mapping shows, how human movement, traffic of signs and visual information form particular cultural and social landscapes, inscribed materially in a terrain.

The understanding of territories, landscapes and temporary spaces as distinct modes of producing and organising knowledge highlights the way natural, social and cultural conditions include boundaries, connectivity, nodes of concentration and transgression in networked, complex and spatially expanded societies.

The "place", or at least the way we conceive of it today, has undergone some major transformation, constituted not only by people who inhabit them but by connections and movements of all sorts that traverse them on a variety of scales, ranging from local, private and intimate processes to public, economic, transnational and systemic ones.

Territories, Landscapes and Temporary Spaces traces, in an immediate geographic sense, the logic of particular human economic circuits in a changed world order of translocal existence, transformative cultural practices and movements in the politics of mobility.

Thus mapping various forms of collaborations and alliances practised in assembling and producing knowledge on the operation of cultural circuit, how they mark and give meaning to the space they traverse, in facilitating connective relations between scientific, cultural and political agents, and extending spaces for just developing cultural practice.

> temporary spaces

Temporary spaces may function as a transient location, generated through the passage of people and projects, inscribing, over time, a form of a program into the spaces itself.

Projects presented in temporary spaces do not propose closed positions, they rather open up the networks within which they have been generated and which they are an operative part of. Each project gives insight into a system, which is simultaneously system of representation and navigation. Projects represent different concepts of geographic practice in the way they operate as a collective, a network, an aesthetic strategy to spatial politics.

The navigation of people through material as well as electronic terrain, engaged in activities of communicating, networking, labouring, informing, imaging, servicing, searching, in the way they correspond to each other in the context, creates an instance, where electronic landscape means both the electronic communications networks and the visual and sonic landscapes generated by satellite media and other geographic information systems into a dynamic and highly gendered mapping system.



   

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