Mapping without borders. Black History Month at BERLIN GLOBAL

Colonial revisionist demands and aggressive Nazi propaganda will be less present and visible in the exhibition space in future. During this year's Black History Month, illustrator and intervention designer Patricia Vester worked with interested visitors to develop new perspectives on how to deal with maps.

Patricia Vester sought a sensitive approach to historical map material and invited visitors to accompany her in this endeavour. The result is a visual, critical journey through the world of school maps and teaching materials from German publishing history. Topics include spatial fears and spatial appropriation, scanned cities, digital hiking and travelling as a Black German. In this event, she presents the results, talks about the collective design process and shows the resulting short film. The film documentary also offers freely accessible material for teachers to use in the classroom.

Participants

Patricia Vester is an illustrator, intervention designer, activist, curator, process facilitator and museum consultant on colonial contexts and museum practice, as well as a developer of discrimination-sensitive art and cultural education. She was born in Germany to a German mother and a Ghanaian father. She is interested in colonial traces and the lack of spaces for coming to terms with them. She seeks exchange on possible mediation formats and designs comics and graphic novels as workbooks. Her work can be found at the Museum Utopie und Alltag, Stadtmuseum Cottbus, Museen Stade, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe and the Brandenburg Museum für Zukunft, Gegenwart und Geschichte, among others.

- €9 / reduced €0. The offer is free of charge. All you need is a ticket for the BERLIN GLOBAL exhibition.
- Children and young people under 18: free
- Exhibition space ‘War’ in BERLIN GLOBAL, 1st floor
- German
- Wheelchair accessible
- Part of: Mapping Myself, BERLIN GLOBAL