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Land Acknowledgement

This project was initiated on territory occupied by many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples for thousands of years. Today Tkaronto is home to many diverse Indigenous people from across Turtle Island. We recognize that although this land is covered by Treaty 13, colonialism is an ongoing process. Please visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land you occupy.

About

Countermap.land is a crowd-sourced project which locates tangible spaces and objects within the territory known as “Canada”, represented by figures and events – be they political, social, economic, or otherwise – that have contributed to the dispossession of life, memory, territory, and resources of BIPOC communities, both past and present.

We recognize that maps and the associated technologies of cartography are inseparable from the colonial project; they describe and segment space, defining boundaries to movement, the exploitable resources of landscapes, and the reaches of imperial power. We hope through this work to appropriate these tools to define new collective histories.

Please note: This platform is currently being tested. If you have questions, please email countermap.land@gmail.com

This project was led by The Architecture Lobby’s Tkaronto chapter in partnership with artist-run centre 221A, and Victor Temperano of Mapster.

We acknowledge that this map only works to name racist and colonial spaces. If you are experiencing trauma or distress, please visit this list of resources.

Vetting Process

The posts submitted to this platform are vetted by a small team of volunteers. It may take some time for your post to appear. Please note that although we are working towards developing a protocol for eliminating hate speech and maintaining a safe virtual space.

Project Team

Dana Salama
Evelyn Hoffman
Heather Breeze
Jamie Lipson
Jesse McKee
Kearon Roy Taylor
Kevin Henriques
Michelle Creeley
Monica Hutton
Nicole Kelly Westman
Tara Marchelewicz
Victor Temperano

Special thanks to:

Christina Battle
Syrus Marcus Ware

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About

Countermap.land is a crowd-sourced project which locates tangible spaces and objects within the territory known as “Canada”, represented by figures and events – be they political, social, economic, or otherwise – that have contributed to the dispossession of life, memory, territory, and resources of BIPOC communities, both past and present.

We recognize that maps and the associated technologies of cartography are inseparable from the colonial project; they describe and segment space, defining boundaries to movement, the exploitable resources of landscapes, and the reaches of imperial power. We hope through this work to appropriate these tools to define new collective histories.

Please note: This platform is currently being tested. If you have questions, please email countermap.land@gmail.com

This project was led by The Architecture Lobby’s Tkaronto chapter in partnership with artist-run centre 221A, and Victor Temperano of Mapster.
We acknowledge that this map only works to name racist and colonial spaces. If you are experiencing trauma or distress, please seek help immediately.

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Title *

What is your email address? *

Your email will not be displayed publicly. However, we may contact you for more information regarding your submission.

To be credited, please enter your preferred name below: *

This will be public. If you wish not to be credited, please write 'anonymous.'

What are you locating? *

We encourage users to think about their relationship to the information that is being submitted and communities who may be impacted. Given that this map is a public forum, we advise against submissions which may divulge traditional or sacred Indigenous knowledge. If you have questions, please email countermap.land@gmail.com

Monument: Includes buildings, objects, or structures.
Area: Includes parks, streets, neighbourhoods, infrastructure, waterways, zones.
Event: Includes memory/ time-based inputs.

What is it called? *

Where is it located? *

When was this monument/ area/ event/ memory imposed on the landscape? When did it originally occur?

Please enter a date in the format DD/MM/YYYY.

What does it look like? *

You can upload a PDF, video, drawing, image, or audio clip up to 10 mb.

This monument/ area/ event/ memory represents: *

Do you have another filter to add? Email countermap.land@gmail.com

Environmental racism
Economic violence
Gender-based discrimination
Sex-based discrimination
Anti-Indigenous Racism
Anti-Black Racism
Xenophobic Racism
Displacement
State-sanctioned violence

This monument/ area/ event/ memory impacted the following community. *

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Indigenous
Black
Person of Colour
Racialized minority
Immigrant
Persons with disabilities
LGBTQIA+

Tell us more: *

We encourage the inclusion of external links.

Informed consent:

Users, by virtue of making a Submission to the form, acknowledge and agree that the organizers [TAL-TO (The Architecture Lobby Toronto/ Tkaronto)], and their affiliates, successors, contractors and assignees, will have a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license to use the Submission, and any materials developed therefrom for all reasonable purposes including but not limited to purposes of research, exhibition, promotion, dissemination and publication. Applicants will otherwise retain all intellectual property rights over their work. The organizers shall use reasonable efforts to credit or attribute work to contributors, but shall bear no responsibility for any failure to do so or for any unauthorized use by a third party.

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Title *

What is your email address? *

Your email will not be displayed publicly. However, we may contact you for more information regarding your submission.

To be credited, please enter your preferred name below: *

This will be public. If you wish not to be credited, please write 'anonymous.'

Reimagine a monument, area, or event. Would you remove it? Alter it in some way? Replace it with something else? *

Upload your sketch!

Name your countermonument *

What are you proposing? *

Where is it located? *

This monument/ area/ event/ memory represents: *

Do you have another filter to add? Email countermap.land@gmail.com

Environmental racism
Economic violence
Gender-based discrimination
Sex-based discrimination
Anti-Indigenous Racism
Anti-Black Racism
Xenophobic Racism
Displacement

This monument/ area/ event/ memory impacted the following community: *

Do you have another filter to add? Email countermap.land@gmail.com

Indigenous
Black
Person of Colour
Racialized minority
Immigrant
Persons with disabilities
LGBTQIA+

Tell us more:

We encourage the inclusion of external links.

Informed consent: Users, by virtue of making a Submission to the form, acknowledge and agree that the organizers [TAL-TO (The Architecture Lobby Toronto/ Tkaronto)], and their affiliates, successors, contractors and assignees, will have a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license to use the Submission, and any materials developed therefrom for all reasonable purposes including but not limited to purposes of research, exhibition, promotion, dissemination and publication. Applicants will otherwise retain all intellectual property rights over their work. The organizers shall use reasonable efforts to credit or attribute work to contributors, but shall bear no responsibility for any failure to do so or for any unauthorized use by a third party.

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Land Acknowledgement

This project was initiated on territory occupied by many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples for thousands of years. Today Tkaronto is home to many diverse Indigenous people from across Turtle Island. We recognize that although this land is covered by Treaty 13, colonialism is an ongoing process. Please visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land you occupy.

About

Countermap.land is a crowd-sourced project which locates tangible spaces and objects within the territory known as “Canada”, represented by figures and events – be they political, social, economic, or otherwise – that have contributed to the dispossession of life, memory, territory, and resources of BIPOC communities, both past and present.

We recognize that maps and the associated technologies of cartography are inseparable from the colonial project; they describe and segment space, defining boundaries to movement, the exploitable resources of landscapes, and the reaches of imperial power. We hope through this work to appropriate these tools to define new collective histories.

Please note: This platform is currently being tested. If you have questions, please email countermap.land@gmail.com

This project was led by The Architecture Lobby’s Tkaronto chapter in partnership with artist-run centre 221A, and Victor Temperano of Mapster.

We acknowledge that this map only works to name racist and colonial spaces. If you are experiencing trauma or distress, please visit this list of resources.

Vetting Process

The posts submitted to this platform are vetted by a small team of volunteers. It may take some time for your post to appear. Please note that although we are working towards developing a protocol for eliminating hate speech and maintaining a safe virtual space.

Project Team

Dana Salama
Evelyn Hoffman
Heather Breeze
Jamie Lipson
Jesse McKee
Kearon Roy Taylor
Kevin Henriques
Michelle Creeley
Monica Hutton
Nicole Kelly Westman
Tara Marchelewicz
Victor Temperano

Special thanks to:

Christina Battle
Syrus Marcus Ware

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