The Farm: a multisensory map about the city of Salto

Abstract

This text contextualizes the mapping of urban territories as a critical reflection to discriminate the modes of circulation of subjects who inhabit the local city. From the theoretical-practical investigation of the territory, the elements of space and their socio-cultural relations, we mapped a specific location close to the downtown of Salto/ SP, and its surroundings. As cartographer-artist, it is used research methods such as surrealist games, cartographic clues and psychogeographic drifts, to compose a narrative that unfolds in a multisensory map. The intention is to rescue a memory that crosses time and can still be perceived in the city’s present time, in order to provoke a critical reflection on the impact of production and consumption models on the landscape of the interior of Sa?o Paulo state. Assuming that deletion in institutional maps conditions stories to be forgotten, cartography is promoted as a critical methodological exercise that opposes hegemonic models.