Mapeando Mapas de Alternativas: Economias Diversas e Modos de Mapear em Comum

Sara Moreira; Anselmo Canha

doi:10.17231/comsoc.43(2023).4461

Authors

Sara Moreira Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain/Instituto de Sociologia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3524-7698
Anselmo Canha Instituto de Investigação em Design, Media e Cultura, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal/Departamento de Artes Visuais, Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Porto, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1732-0353

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.43(2023).4461

Keywords:

collaborative mappings, digital commons, diverse economies

Abstract

This paper’s object of study focuses on six maps produced in Portugal and Catalonia as communication devices of other possible worlds. Assuming the growing importance of digital maps in the network society, we want to contribute to learning more about their role in constructing alternatives to the dominant economy in times of systemic crisis. What lessons emerge from maps that propose deviations from capitalist roadmaps? What understandings do they provide about the maps themselves, ways of mapping, and the hoped-for alternatives? Rather than exploring maps as a product, we seek to contribute to an understanding of the interstitial forces of their pre-production, production, and reproduction. In the light of the theories of the commons, the dynamics of collaborative mapping of diverse economies are explored: diverse in terms of their knowledge policies, modes of governance and participation and, therefore, in how they handle digital technologies. The object of study is defined and united, in its variety, by the ideas of collective and commons. The data comes from direct observation of maps and interviews with stakeholders. The analysis is predominantly qualitative and aims to organise relevant findings and challenges, which can be extrapolated from the observed testimonies, practices and objects.

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Author Biographies

Sara Moreira, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain/Instituto de Sociologia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Sara Moreira is a doctoral candidate in the Information and knowledge society programme at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She is part of the Dimmons research-action group dedicated to the digital commons and socio-economic innovation. She develops research on solidarity economy networks and agroecological consumption and production groups based on theories of the commons and communication for eco-social transformation. She has a master’s degree in computer engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. She has worked in several Portuguese-speaking countries and collaborates with the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto. Among other militancy, she is a co-producer in Porto’s Association for the Maintenance of Local Farming and a member of the Portuguese Network of Solidarity Agroecology.

Anselmo Canha, Instituto de Investigação em Design, Media e Cultura, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal/Departamento de Artes Visuais, Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Anselmo Canha has a degree in communication design — graphic art (University of Porto, 1984), a master’s in image design (University of Porto, 2008) and a PhD in design from the same university. As a researcher, he focuses on the relationships between independent contexts of creation — namely non-professional and experimental — and social transformation. In his master’s dissertation, he studied the Centro Comercial Stop. His PhD thesis elected a community radio station — Radio Manobras — as the centre of Porto’s cases’ constellation. As a professional designer, he channels his activity into signage and public information systems dedicated to services and public spaces.

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