Border Crossings

Most recent border crossings using the Bordr app.

Recommended Readings

• Denis Wood – The Power of Maps
• Catherine D’Ignazio – Art and Cartography
• Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities
• Henri Lefebvre (spatial practice)
• Saskia Sassen – Old Borders and New Bordering Capabilities
• Stephen Graham – Ubiquitous Borders
• IKSV – Athens, A City of Thresholds
• Arreola – Border-City Idee Fixe
• Costica Bradatan – The Psychology of Walls
• Wendy Brown – Walled States, Waning Sovereignty

Tools for Critical Geography / Radical Cartography

• Map Map Vauxhall – Conform mind maps to a Google or Open Street map. A way to explore how space and memory is transformed through practice.
• Balloon & Kite Mapping

Projects

Julian Oliver – Border Bumping
Scott Snibbe – Boundary Functions
Ricardo Dominguez – Transborder Immigrant Tool

Research Blogs

• Arsenal of Exclusion – a book project about the ways architects, planners, developers, and communities create borders in the city. For a podcast introduction to the project visit 99% Invisible.
• Fronteras Invisibles – A workshop in Mexico City on urban borders. And a reflection on the workshop.
• Divided Cities – a design studio about cities on borders.
• Bill Rankin’s Radical Cartography – mapping projects focusing on territoriality and boundaries, or where the map precedes the territory.