Lesvos Migration Atlas is…
–not another website-
Lesvos Migration Atlas opens up a virtual space where the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, the hotspot regime, everyday life, the processes of ‘commonings’ are brought together, through a ‘collectif’ of snapshots and facts in space and time; moving histories, narratives and imaginaries.
The focus is on Lesvos island, Northeastern Aegean sea, Greece as well as the representations of the recent history and life of Lesvos.
Lesvos Migration Atlas is…
–not another website-
As a research’s output, it is itself a representation that embraces theory, narratives, practices and acts; a visual and symbolic tool that provides space for photographic material, videos, artworks, mappings, everyday stories and reflective texts.
…writings on walls and in the streets; everyday life of local, migrant and refugee population within various spaces of Lesvos island; from the hotspot of Moria to the common spaces of living and struggling together…
It can well be approached as an ‘assemblage’ of constantly moving and emerging crises, representations and ‘commonings’.
Lesvos Migration Atlas is…
–not another website-
At the same time, all these experimental ideas, representations and practices attempt to visualize ‘the invisible’ and give space for interaction and ‘new relations’.
At the same time, it is a collective process of capturing, writing and representing, a process of commoning…
Lesvos Migration Atlas is…
–not another website-
It is a ‘navigation’ that initially needs a Concept Map to make visible the concept-areas of our mapping:
‘CRISIS’/ ΜΑP(PING)/ GEOTRAUMA/ SYMBOLS/ WALL WRITING/ ARTWORKS/ NARRATIVES/ EVERYDAY LIFE/ COMMON(ING)S/ RESISTANCES/ ‘ATLAS’
Lesvos Migration Atlas is…
–not another website-
It is a cosmos of ideas, representations, narratives, theory, practice and contradictions;
open to ‘newcomers’; new material and scripts by you; thus,
an ‘open cosmos’ in process of becoming…