Description
This presentation shares the work of Coastliner Lab, a transdisciplinary mapping initiative that engages with disrupted ecologies and contested waters in planetary critical zones. It asks: how can data entangle with watery bodies—interweaving cartographic, scientific, and communal knowledge related to deep sea and hydraulic energies—to shape participatory and activist mapmaking practices? Through community-generated mapping workshops, practices of deep listening, and the cultivation of planetary data literacy, the Lab produces counter-cartographic works that visualize the relational dynamics of hydro-commons across human and more-than-human worlds. The presentation will focus on two recent works: Coastline Atlas: Deep Listening Deep Mapping in Marmara Sea and Moratoria: Mapping Deep-Sea Mining in the Caribbean. It will layer the Lab’s methodologies—including participatory drawing, situated geospatial data generation, sonic sensing, and web-based interactive cartographies—and reflect on how information design can serve as a tool for co-creating more livable futures with planetary hydro-commons.
