Mapping our Stories through Geographic Technology and Design

How can we tell our stories through geospatial visualizations? Wanna learn how to use powerful cartograms on QGIS and CARTO? Don’t know what this is? No worries we got chu!

Let’s mobilize and equip ourselves with dope tech skills to develop new frameworks for resistance! This workshop focuses on creative writing, composing counter narratives and mapmaking using stories as they relate to our connection to space. Participants will leave the workshop with a basic understanding of:

-Why access to technology is important in empowering our communities
-How maps can be effective in tackling issues of social equity
-How to convert our narratives into data visualizations
-Free/accessible data and software (aka open source technology e.g CARTO, QGIS, GRASS etc.)

Participants will need to send a brief description of a narrative they are interested in exploring three days before the workshop via email (wocsolidarity@gmail.com). Please bring your laptops with QGIS (free GIS software) installed.

*This workshop is designed for womxn, femmes, transwomxn, gender nonconforming and two-spirit people of color

Facilitators: Darie Ward-Cherry & Mélat Seyoum
Organized by: Natalie Estrella & WOCS

About WOC in Solidarity:
Women of Color and Solidarity seeks to create a global movement that places healing and solidarity at the forefront. We believe that as a collective, women of color have the ability to navigate systems of oppression in a way that seeks to not only dismantle them but to recreate new systems that honor love, liberation, and freedom. Every time women of color come together, a part of the world heals.

Read More about their weekend-long intersectional-driven feminist conference here:
http://www.crwnmag.com/blog/2017/5/how-woc-in-solidarity-paints-picture-of-a-brighter-future

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