18 Mercedes Peralta This workshop invites students to explore how subtle connections between bodies, spaces, materials, and memories can be traced, mapped, and translated into a collective landscape. Belonging is often felt in fragile, almost imperceptible ways: through gestures, textures, proximities, or the rhythms of walking. By attending to these contextual affinities, participants will generate mappings that reveal not only where we are, but how we relate in a specific context. The workshop unfolds through a series of short themed walks within Antwerp, each curated by pairs of students in dialogue with-in the city. Every walk foregrounds a different lens for perceiving and mapping affinities. Now, four initial themes include: → Thresholds and Edges focuses on tracing in-between spaces such as crossings, borders, or margins. → Echoes of the More-than-Human is attending to plants, animals, water, weather, and other agents shaping the city. → Traces and Memory will be searching for overlooked inscriptions, marks, or remnants that hold stories of belonging. → Rhythms and Flows centers on mapping movements, sounds, and temporal patterns that stitch places together. During and after each walk, students will use rapid recording methods. These can be drawing, folding, collage, rubbing, or collecting to produce fragments of cartographies. These fragments will be assembled into a shared material outcome: a landscape made of paper and textile-like surfaces, both map and terrain and a performance in itself. The work will evolve as a collective composition, reflecting the layered ways we long for and belong to places. This proposal resonates with the theme of BE+LONGING by centering it as a question which is not positioned as a fixed identity or theoretical construct, but as a set of situated relations which are constituted by intersubjectivity, diversity and multi-cultural dimensions which are continually in the making. By tracing affinities in landscape and translating them into collective form, students will cultivate new imaginaries of material and atmospheric connections through a more sensitive reading of place.
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