Visualizing Relations to Land of Traditional and Indigenous Peoples
Visualising Relations to Land (VRL) explores the application of 3D digital environments for visualising the unique relationships that Traditional and Indigenous Peoples have with land and territory. VRL partners with Traditional and Indigenous Peoples organisations from the reindeer herding territories of the Southern Sami in the Røros region of Norway, the agro silvo-pastoral region of Barroso in northern Portugal, and the indigenous and ‘quilombola’ territories of the Jequitinhonha valley in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Produced with game-engine software, digital environments will enable Traditional and Indigenous Peoples to visualise their deep relations to land by allowing the spatialisation of oral histories in concrete geographical locations or the geolocation and integration of heterogenous data sources, such as historical photographs, testimony, and artefacts, and by providing immersive environments and visual cues that will aid in the recall of memories of uses and practices of land.