Mapping Water: Currents, Coastlines and Planetary Intelligence

Harvard GSD

Mapping has long been entangled with technologies of exploration, extraction, surveillance, territorial control, and the production of power. Yet maps have also been reclaimed by artists, activists, Indigenous communities, architects, designers, urbanists, technologists, and visionary thinkers as tools for counter-action, reparative agency, and world-making. Joining these efforts, this seminar explores water as a medium of planetary intelligence and hydro-commons.In our day, intelligence is…