Atlas of Resistance
Places and Culture in Dialogue
Project Overview
This navigable atlas and archive examines cultural resistance as a defining dimension of urban life, making visible the structural pressures, social and narrative patterns, and aesthetic forms that shaped Madrid during the first two decades of the twenty-first century.
The platform brings together spatial data and cultural materials to map where and how these practices emerge. By layering demographic, housing, surveillance, environmental, and urban planning data, it invites users to explore how creative practices take shape within—and respond to—the infrastructures that organize urban life.
The present prototype centers on this dynamic in the context of Madrid’s Lavapiés neighborhood, a district shaped by a long history of disenfranchisement linked to shifting populations of religious minorities, political dissidents, and racialized communities from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
The Atlas is designed to serve as both a research tool and a curated digital archive that documents ephemeral practices typically absent from institutional preservation.