Multispecies Thick-Map Prototype #1:
The Agro Pontino

Multispecies thick-mapping is a new lab-created interdisciplinary and non-anthropocentric method of spatialization and visualization that takes into account both the diachronic nature of a specific place (across multiple time periods, from mythic times to geological epochs to contemporary, decade-long time scales) and its synchronic characteristics, i.e. all these features existing together in the present, at the same time, via a series of overlapping physical and imaginative systems, both human and “more-than-human.” 

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The Agro Pontino prototype map demostrates that a humanistic and qualitative analysis of how cultural and colonial identity-politics impinge upon the destinies of individuals, regions, economies and entire ecocultural systems can add to an understanding of how cultural, natural and economic configurations are mutually interdependent and co-becoming (i.e. becoming together, coming into and being in existence via ongoing multiple human and nonhuman relationships).

 

You can view the completed Multispecies Thick Map here.

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You can read an Open Access article that discusses this map here (published in the California Italian Studies journal).