Film Geography Workshop: Tell a Story in 6 Shots

Can one tell a complete story in 6 shots? To find out, come to a filmgeography workshop event on June 7, Wednesday from 1:00-4:00PM in Pavilion Room 2248 of UP Diliman. This 3-hour workshop entitled Filmmaking as a Storytelling Tool for Research Using Your Phone invites participants to create stories that engage with environments, bodies, emotions, natures, … More Film Geography Workshop: Tell a Story in 6 Shots

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Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-09: Keith Landicho on averting and outsmarting disasters

Can disasters be averted and mitigated with the judicious help of a network of tools and workflows? Find out for this month’s Heo/Geo Lecture Series. It is said that the physical conditions and existing socioeconomic vulnerability of a geographical environment combined with the threat of a hazard, determines the way that disasters are formed—the spatial … More Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-09: Keith Landicho on averting and outsmarting disasters

Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-08: Trisha Remetir on pipeline as metaphor

The pipeline—as a carrier of oil, water, or fiberoptic cables—is a military infrastructure that brings dispersed geographical sites in political and economic relation.  Lowered onto seabeds or buried underground, pipelines change ecologies and shape relations in invisible yet irrevocable ways. But as a literary metaphor, the pipeline can be a tool for noticing submerged connections … More Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-08: Trisha Remetir on pipeline as metaphor

Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-07: Paul Schweizer on collective mapping and engaged cartography

“Collective mapping … is a common process of territorial reflection, awareness-building and self-organization” (kollektiv orangotango). The kollektiv orangotango is an assemblage of critical geographers, popular educators and allies in promoting horizontal knowledge co-production. Based mostly in Europe but whose alliance with activist cartographers and their communities extends throughout the world, the kollektiv promotes joint learning processes, produces … More Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-07: Paul Schweizer on collective mapping and engaged cartography

Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-06: Raisa Salvador and JB Valderrama on less carbon transport

The Republic of the Philippines, through the Department of Transportation (DOTr), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are working together on the Promotion of Low Carbon Urban Transport Systems in the Philippines (LCT) with the support of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to improve the transport system in the country. For the sixth Heo/Geo … More Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-06: Raisa Salvador and JB Valderrama on less carbon transport

Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-05: Marie Karner and Elisabeth Sommerlad on sustainable utopias

In response to the current multiple moments of crisis, many countries are implementing large projects that promise sustainable, cohesive, inclusive, and viable lifestyles. Well-connected elites engaged in these projects imagine, plan, and realise visions of sustainable and vibrant living together, shaped by the belief in technologies and enabled by enormous amounts of capital. For the … More Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-05: Marie Karner and Elisabeth Sommerlad on sustainable utopias

Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-04: Aireen Andal on urban world-building among children

What ideas might geographers learn if children were to plan a fictional city? For the fourth Heo/Geo Lecture Series, sponsored jointly by the UP Department of Geography and the Philippine Geographical Society, the focus is on urban imaginaries among slum-dwelling children in San Jose del Monte City. Aireen Andal from Macquarie University presents children’s urban … More Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-04: Aireen Andal on urban world-building among children

Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-03: Philippe Rekacewicz on the radical potentials of cartography

Maps are a powerful way to reflect the world as we see it, rather than what it really is. In this context, they act as a “dreaming machine” with which we can mix reality with our fantasy.  For the third Heo/Geo Lecture Series for 2023, geographer, cartographer, and information designer Dr Philippe Rekacewicz will provide … More Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-03: Philippe Rekacewicz on the radical potentials of cartography

Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-02: Edo Andriesse on inequalities from growing seaweed in Iloilo

Find out why growing seaweed can have starkly different outcomes in the same province. For the second Heo/Geo Lecture Series, Edo Andriesse describes and explains the challenges of sustained success in growing carrageenan seaweed in Iloilo Province. Based on two rounds of fieldwork in two municipalities, a process of divergence can be observed; success in … More Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-02: Edo Andriesse on inequalities from growing seaweed in Iloilo

Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-01: Kaloy Cunanan discusses spatial patterns of underdevelopment in urban Metro Manila

Sa kauna-unahang talakayan ng Heo/Geo Lecture Series ngayong taon, ang UP Department of Geography ay nagagalak na ipakilala si Kaloy M. Cunanan at ang kanyang presentasyon na pinamagatang Ilang Tala sa Medyasyon at Konsepsyon sa Paglalapat ng Siyudad Kumprador. Gaganapin ito ngayong Biyernes, ika- 20 ng Enero, taong 2023 (alas-5 ng hapon) sa Zoom.      Photo: Amanda Echanis … More Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2023-01: Kaloy Cunanan discusses spatial patterns of underdevelopment in urban Metro Manila