Description
The Atlas of Popular Transport is a manifesto in collective intelligence—the convergence of human insight, technological tools, and imagination to create data against limitations. It shows that the knowledge to transform our cities already exists in the hands of those who move through them. The Atlas documents transport systems that move the majority of people in the world’s fastest-growing cities through the eyes of those who built essential data to know them. Drawing on sixteen mapping efforts from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, it curates and visualizes how informal transport systems move millions daily. Animated data, interviews, large-format streetscape projections, and an interactive analog-digital exhibition weave together locally generated knowledge and open-source tools into a transcalar, multimedia experience. The Atlas repositions the medium, once used to define borders and assert control, to center the voices, data, and mobility practices of those excluded from official narratives.
