This residency explores a central tension: how do personal desires reshape the spaces we collectively share?

Historically, map-making has been used to claim ownership, define borders and assert control. This residency seeks to subvert that function. Rather than treating the map as an instrument of possession, it uses speculative cartography as a tool to visualise this central tension.

The project centres on a large-scale map that participants continuously reshape. Each intervention allows them to add something to the territory, but only through a rule of consequence: nothing can be added without something elsewhere being removed, weakened, or displaced.

As gestures accumulate, the map ceases to be a fixed representation of land. It becomes a living record of negotiation, where personal decisions leave a collective trace. The final landscape is shaped not only by what participants create, but by what their choices cause to disappear