Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Topological Atlas (estd. 2018) is a long-term project focusing on undocumented migration, border regimes and their visual representation. It explores ideas around affective witnessing, incalculability and opacity in relation to the circulations and unsettlements of migration through combining fieldwork with digital methods of mapping and modelling. The research considers the relationship between neocolonial practices and cartography through the role of resolution in machinic vision and the deeply embedded idea of the impermeability of the Earth’s surface in relation to maps. The project is concerned with the material, affective and atmospheric qualities of borders, and develops a mapping practice that makes room for the faint web of sedimented relationalities that endure in place and support the fragile movements of the undocumented.