Map-Making Workshop: ‘Places We Carry’ and ‘Atlas of Shared Place’

A free two-part workshop led by cultural practitioner and educator Nanelle Jayawardene that explores how memory and experience shape our sense of place, “inviting participants to engage in a form of map-making that foregrounds our personal encounters with a space”. This process raises questions about conventional cartographic methods and assumptions – “often grounded in colonial knowledge systems” – that reveal ‘place’ to be a concept that varies between individual perceptions and across time.

The workshop draws inspiration from the current exhibition at Ishara The sky held it, the earth remembered (till 15 December) and will begin with a tour of the show. It responds to Shahana Rajani’s portrayal of communities that sustain their relationship with home through painting, as well as Sarker Protick’s documentation of the incremental changes witnessed by his neighbourhood in Dhaka over 15 years.

The schedule:

1.30-3pm Places We Carry
3-4pm Break
4-5.30pm Atlas of Shared Place 

RSVP here – there’s only 12 spaces for each workshop.