g e o g r a f i a   a f f e t t i v a   -   how do you define it ?

geo:
definition 1. earth.
graphy:
definition 1. writing or representation produced in (such) a way or by (such) means.
definition 2. science of, writing about, or representation of (such) an object or subject.
geography n.; pl - the science which treats of the world and its inhabitants;
a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure,
features, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.
study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and
climate and soil and vegetation.
affective:
definition 1. pertaining to or caused by emotions rather than reason.

cittadellarte, biella, september 2004

this ones that need to watch them closer !!! then you know better
walid, palestine

impossibilità di separare la nozione di un luogo dall’affezione per le persone che li sono o da li sono passate.
matteo, italia

geografia affettiva is a game beetween history and memory. the process of dayly experience that transform the feeling.
filippo, italia

it is the geografy that represents the human evolution.
cristiana, italia

physical surroundings, the society in which you live, your country, your location within the world –
these you can’t necessarily ‘change’ – but there is also how you think + feel about all of these things
and this you have control over and the ability to change.
perhaps its the geography of how you think and feel – the extents and the limits of your ability
to interpret/express these through your artistic imagination.
mary – U.K.

duygusal cografya
dünyanin neresi olursa olsun, oradan bir bag tasima, tüm dünyanin bir parcasi olma,
beraber düsünme, hissetme, hareket etme. Tüm cografyanin kalbi olma…
arada kalma, her yere bagli olma ama tek basina kalma…
çagil yurdakul, türkiye

for me the sentence could be very abstract, might be it could be some new definition
of political mappin or it could be a bridge between different geographical situations in this world ?
pratul, india

love of the land – love of the country – nationalism - parochial – small
margarita – scotland

a place where the sky meets the earth. you cannot walk there only with your senses.
ishan, india

las relaciones que tenemos
como nos relacionamos, con y en el espacio
las texturas de nuestras relaciones
luis, colombia

los lugares y los estados del viaje de los sentimientos y las miradas
daniel, españa

it’s a mental map. it’s what i remember about the place and about what the place give me.
it’s a link beetwen me and the space and beetwen me and the time
federica, italia

geo – tierra , earth
grafia – grafico, visual, to make visual
afectiva – invisibile, feeling, conceptual
alejandro, colombia

the idea that throughout the world, there are tight relationships between location and culture, human motion and emotion.
terry, usa

affective – in combination to affection in the sense of compassionate action /intervention
geo – world, globe
graphy – writing, visual
peter, belgium

> eliminating ?
> virtual ?
> linguistic ?
> anonymous
> disclosed
> exchange
> geografia affettiva : un – mapping
sarah rifky, egypt

a "geografia affectiva" becomes interesting to me when it can morph into a tool that reveals and works to correct
the psychological damage caused by migration and displacement. a tool that can be adopted and shaped by users
(maybe workers with families in other countries, lovers separated by political borders and visa restrictions, activists
who want to mobilize a group of colleagues in a particular region for an action, etc), individuals in realities where this
form of visualized communication can provide important content, emotional or otherwise. thinking about the designated
user is so important in my mind because it confronts issues of access to technology, sites where the interface will
to be situated, but will also alter the entire shape of the prototype.
will kwan, canada

New lands you will not find, you will not find other seas.
Your city will always follow you. You will roam the same
streets. And you will age in the same neighborhoods;
in these same houses you will grow gray.
(adapted from "the city" by Kavafis)
rafram chaddad, israel





la panaderia, sevilla, april 2004

homeros, culo, vientre, cuello, toda la superficie del cuerpo de mi amor.
con sus protuberancias y huecos, cada una de esas formaciones son una geografia afectiva para mi.
ruben

(psicogeografía)
visualización personal y emocional del territorio que relativiza las distancias
y las fronteras.
recualifica los lugares constantemente y distorsiona percepciones previas.
es un mapa mental que se dibuja una y otra vez.
bea

es un lugar donde estamos todos, ya que todos tenemos un ombligo que
nos une al mundo.
necesitamos sentirnos ubicados y tener referencias para no sentirnos
perdidos. construimos constelaciones comunes.
huellas, rostros, gestos, imagenes, sensaciones, estados de ánimo....
ingredientes para otras cartografías que nos permitean dibujarnos.
eva morales

marseille, 22.03.04 – 27.03.04

- landscape ? – relation with people ?
affective geogragraphy means for me, as a network of friends move, as places where
you like spend some time (library, cinema, shops, parks) and point of view of landscape.
without the best, on the web, I think it’s possible to make a real network of faces memory.
i think about someone, in an other country, he’s in holyday and he meet someone who remind something….
he seen his face on a friend’s network memory bank. friend by friend, your affective network is growing !
vincent

geographie affective: une sucession de liens, tragets qui lame un raiseau intime que l’on fait partagaer aux autres.
rebecca azoulay

la géographie affective appelle aux souvenirs, à un vécu don’t les points forts se matérialisent
sur une carte géographique.
la cartographie est choisie comme repère de base. Ainsi des relations se font entre le vécu de
la personne et des points géographiques. et comme d’autres ont cette même carte, commune à tous,
comme base, les lignes de chacun se croisent, et les liens se font entre touts les personnes, et leur vécu,
positionné dans l’espace.
julie

c’est un toit, une couverture; d’abord une architecture. Aussi “das heimat” regroupant les idées
d’appartenance et de relation intime. comme les pièce d’un échiquier sur le damier d’une ville,
le squelette premier sur lequel se posent habitants mobiles et immobiles soummis aux changements
de cette trame en constante reconstruction, déconstruction et redéconstruction.
des repères survivent, l’environnement change et le lieu le plus attachant devient dalle brute de béton.
damien

The trace of our steps in this world.
alessandra

Une vision du monde à l'échelle de l'individu.
Un outil pour communiquer dans ce monde de brutes
(si vous connaissez la pub Lindt "quelques grammes
de finesse..." vous voyez ce que je veux dire!).
marie

GA is a link running throught all our different worlds
(reality, virtuality, dreams, acts, ...). GA gives/opens
an opportunity to combine all those worlds together.
sylvie

Pas de definition de GA
yannick

G. A. ?
De cette juxtaposition de deux mots pourtant simples, il découle une notion complexe qui associe lieux, personnes, actions, émotions.
La G. A. ne serait-elle pas alors la cartographie des moments ?
Ceux agréables à vivre, celui où je t’ai rencontré, ceux où je les ai rencontrés, ceux qui m’ont fait prendre un large virage,
dans le laisser aller à vivre l’instant présent ou dans la prise de décision.
Ma G. A., c’est apprendre ; creuser dans la terre, en sortir des émotions, des évidences ; avoir une vraie discussion,
déguster les dernières pages d’un livre ; faire une sieste au soleil ; ne rien faire aussi.
Ces moments, ils restent dans ma mémoire et pour ceux-là il est inutile de poser les questions « Où, avec qui ? » car c’est leur définition même.
sandrine

medellin, november 2003

es la geografia afectada por el cuerpo extendiendo lineas inter-corporales de comunicación y deseo.
es la palabra, la voz, la lengua, la mirada, la escucha y el tacto conformando tramas de lenguaje
y convivencia. (geografias afectadas-afectivas)
victor muñoz

puntos terrestres que exala el alma cuando cumples casos con palabras voladoras para decir te quiero.
ricardo bernal fernandez

geografia afectiva es una conexión entre ciencia y arte, que pretende localizar y puntualizar
el amor sobre la tierra.
alejandro vasquez salinas

me remite a el espacio donde podemos sentir, al espacio donde se comparte sentimientos.
cuando se habla de geografia, necesariamente es la relacion con los otros, pero una relacion
de contacto, ya sea visual, auditivo o de tacto. es hablar del contacto de los afectos con el mundo.
liliana higuita guisao

son los espacio recorridos a traves de los sentidos y en cada uno de estos espacios
se crea y hay una union que tiene el poder de afectarnos de muchas maneras...
cuando escucha las palabras “geografia afectiva” me remiten al cuerpo, al sentir,
me imagino como es atraversar espacios y lo que representa en la memoria, espacios
fisicos como la distancia entre dos ciudades o el pasar de una zona del cuerpo a otra.
julian urrego

es el mapa visible del afecto. Todas las rutas sin importar la direccion contienen la misma
informacion y todas tienen una respuesta diferente al amor.
daniel felipe gil

para mi geografia afectiva es un modo de darle espacio y forma a algo invisible como el afecto.
es un modo de poder visualizar y intender unas dimension totalmente personal y subjetiva,
que normalmente existe en una estructura abstracta hasta para nosotros mismos.
es lograr reunir un monton de sentimientos en una disposicion unica e irrepetible.
es intentar calcular algo que es totalmente incomprensible. es un modo de entender las
relaciones que vienen de afuera hacia nosotros y viceversa, reflexionando sobre la clase
de relacion y los sentimientos que te involucran con los demas.
diana zapata

ville de perpignan, école des beaux arts, workshop 2.6. – 6.6.2003

espace d’echanges
localisation lieu social
geographie tissu
affective
manu

découverte
monde
sensibilité
fragilité
chaleur
questionnement
sophie

avoir de longs bras pour poivoir mettre une claque à Bush et au mème temps caresser une girafe.
marilyn

developpement / design
responsabilité
espace public
topologie > transformation de l’information
partage / aide / accompagnement
un arbre
fun
breath
time
people
michel

peuple – frontiaires – metissage
cartes (geo.) – formes subjectives
dans tracer pouvant faire appel a l’afective
fred

ce sont pour moi les endroits ou j’ai l`habitude de me déplacer et qui me touche
sensiblement, ça m’evoque aussi un lieu ou l’espace es construite de manière à raprocher les gens.
etienne

lieu dans lequel nous avons des choses, des souvenir ou des personnes qui nous sont chère.
example: une région ou un cimetière
jerome

un lieu nous rapellant de bons souvenirs, ou tout simplement notre passé.
jacques

lieux et endroits ou se trouve les gens qui ont quelquonque importance.
hierarchie sentimentale des personnes dans la tête.
julien

les differents lieux “changés” qui compte pour une personne.
un rèchercher.
sylvan

pour moi ce serai des pays de l’est
jusqu’en asie
eurasie
en passant par
roumanie, pologne
tadjikistan, ouksbekistan
iran, turquie
inde.....
mongolie, thailande...
landry

curiosité
amitié / amour (e)
radicalité
confiance
fun/rigoleux
expériment
optimisme/positivisme
(green) plants
spider
input / output
breathing
nico

ce qui est autour d’une personne et qui se propage à toutes les personnes
rencontrées. Qui part d’un réseau d’amis ou autres les reperer physiquement
pour se faire un territoire.
delphine

cittadellarte - september 2002

its about making a cartography of the inner feelings rationalised in space.
(joao – portugal)

its about personal movement in space directed by spontaneous motivations or
emotional references and sympathies.
(omi - spain)

sounds rooted in the real, doesnt sound like statistical geography. phenomenology in
geography.
(bryan – scotland)

el tipo de relaciones que establecemos con diferentes espacios, un modo de
construir la propia identidad partiendo del identificarse con espacios, con personas,
con situaciones.
(juan – colombia)

dove abito.
(marco – iItalia)

a way of saying how all things in your environment affect you. it reminds me of
deleuze & guattaris transversal thinking and guattaris "three ecologies: social -
mental -enviromental. every time you are in a new place geography affects you.
(steve - u s a)

i remember all these maps and i'm asking myself how geography could be affective. it
reminds me of jerusalem, the city of blood and of israel where a lot of people are
willing to fight for land. geography contains a lot in it, what exactly are you talking
about ? about countrys, about land ? i never thought about this two terms together.
(liron – israel)

para mi son los mapas de relaciones que se generan entre los espacios y las
personas.
la carga simbolica que nosotros introducimos en los espacios y por el otro lado son
tambien las caracteristicas fisicas de los espacios que nosotros al final retenemos.
(david – spain)

es la relacion entre un espacio y las personas que lo habitan, cuando hablamos de
un espacio hablamos tambien de las personas que lo habitan porque sentimos
afinidad en relacion al espacio vivido, a las experiencias que tenemos con las
personas.
(daniela – portugal)

the geography that affects you personally, your mood; like today when the sun was
shining. I was very happy, I wanted to fly. I believe all of the things in nature inform
the body of people, this is why the atmosphere is very connected.
(anas – palestine)

it means the place or the geography where you live, which makes you think more
about the place, it has to do with personality, so one has to really find out ways to
understand geography better.
(gigi – india)

la proiezione dei loghi, di quello qui esiste realmente, filtrate dalla esperienza
personale.
(iris – Italia)

it makes me think how one feels in relation to a country, it makes me think of inner
geography, geography that has nothing to do with the real countries, more a
metaphorical level, its more a way to think about geography.
(raphaelle – canada)

it seems that affective defines the boundaries of a particular zone of space or
thought, relating to experience.
(marcelino – netherlands)

forse vuol dire diversi modi di voglersi bene negle differenti culture.
(maria p.- italia)

if I hear geografia affetiva I immediately imagine the mediterrenean map. What would
be affective about this, I think maybe something personal, something like to make
the places that are in different countries somehow related on a personal level.
(mattej - mediterranean slovenja)

it’s definitely got something to do with your native place and also with nice periods of
your life spent in some place. Something that connects you emotionally to some
place, whether it’s a native place or some nice period of your life.
(hela – croatia)

vuol dire la disposizione territoriale degli oggetti dei miei affetti o I luoghi dentro di me
che sono abitati dagli affetti.
(paolo – italia)

un intento de dibujar un mapa, de dar fisicidad a un tejido emotivo.
(laia – catalonia)

la percepcion del espacio esta directamente influenciada por las experiencias que
vives en el. El tamaño, la forma de un pais, una ciudad. La percepcion del espacio
es subjetivo como la percepcion del tiempo tambien.
(miquel – netherlands)

unterschied zwischen kalten und warmen laendern. orte und raeume und staedte,
eine atmosphaere, im sinn einer art gestimmtheit die ein einfluss hat auf die eigene stimmung.
(dagmar – switzerland)

ma geograhie affective c‚est mon resort, ce resort nourit mon travail et m‚aide à le
communiqué.
(katja, france – algerie)

was heisst das ? zuhause, at home where ever you want, unterwegs, beinflusst durch
die umgebung, immer neu anpassen, entstehen, veraendern
(uli - germany)

e il contesto ambientale in qui si forma la evoluzione die un individuo, osmoticamente
generata da influssi, afinita e incontri con persone e luoghi.
(filippo – italia)

potrebbe essere il rituale, il rituale sportivo, il rituale musicale, tutto cio che crea
relazioni impulsivi in un grupo. Impulsive nel senso del non razionale, irrazionale,
emozionale. Coessioni emozionali che se articolano in varie forme.
(michelangelo – iItalia)