WORLD WILDLIFE FUND

"Cartographies in conversation" is a project that collects audio recordings of conversations with local indigenous people in the Amazonia about cultural heritage, relationships to land and the unprecedented wildfires in the last few years result of the growth of the agricultural frontier, to discuss and reflect on the connections between colonialism and deforestation in the Amazonia... The fragments of audio files contained on the website, currently correspond to the first stage of the project with conversations that were held both remotely and in place, with local people from Palmarito de la Frontera and Concepción in the Chiquitania territory, and one conversation from Asunción de Guarayos form the Guarayos territory, all territories based in the Bolivian Amazonia... The project was developed during the master's program in Design (Visual Communication) at the University of Bergen in the Faculty of Art, Music and Design (KMD), 2020 - 2022. As such "Cartographies in conversation" is..