About this Event
What happens when Indigenous knowledge travels across communities, exhibitions, and back home? Through film screenings and a conversation with Claudia Tomateo, Grimaldo Rengifo, and Catherine D’Ignazio, we revisit Amazonian Calendars: Indigenous Data Visualizations, an exhibition developed with Quechua communities in the Amazon of so-called Peru and hosted at the MIT Media Lab. Following its journey from the Amazon to Cambridge and back to the communities through a traveling fabric exhibition system, we reflect on cycles of knowledge sharing and how embodied and land-based knowledges can be represented, shared, and sustained through reciprocal relationships.
Speakers
Grimaldo Rengifo Vásquez is a Peruvian educator, researcher, and writer from Tocache, in the Upper Amazon. Co-founder of PRATEC and Waman Wasi, he has spent decades learning with and accompanying Andean and Amazonian communities. He has authored numerous books and is a leading reference on Indigenous knowledges, intercultural education, cultural affirmation, and Andean-Amazonian ways of knowing and living.
Claudia Tomateo is an Indigenous designer, educator, and researcher, descendant of Quechua-Chanka people and Chinese and Japanese immigrants to so-called Peru. She is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Knowledges and Methodologies at Parsons and PhD candidate at MIT. Her work explores Indigenous data visualization and methodologies through relational and embodied practices.
Catherine D’Ignazio is a hacker mama, scholar, and artist/designer who focuses on feminist technology, data justice and civic engagement. She is an Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT and Director of the Data + Feminism Lab.
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