We dealt with artistic mappings. Mappings are both a technique and a medium of information design for graphically presenting information and making it more understandable and tangible. This involves not only geographical maps, but also assorting and linking other networks and information. Many maps and mappings appear neutral and objective. Artists and activists repeatedly make use of this characteristic and work with mapping in their situated perspectives, e.g., to improve the lives of Black people at the beginning of the 20th century (W.E.B. du Bois), or like Suzanne Treister, who uses the tarot card set Witches 2.0 to analyze new technologies and make futures comprehensible and discussable together.

In decolonial theory, as well as in design thinking and many areas of design, futures and the conception and visualization of alternatives to the status quo (characterized by environmental destruction, neo-colonialism, capitalism, etc.) currently play a major role. Design theorist Pablo Escobar describes this in his book “Design for the Pluriverse” as “a world where many worlds fit.” We want to practice this subjective, situated representation of the current state of the world, and thus also a vision of desirable futures, with a collective mapping in the form of a poster and a set of collaboratively designed tarot cards integrated into it.

Within two weeks, we have to set ourselves a very limited framework for this – and are therefore using Suzanne Treister's tarot card game “Hexen2.0” as a starting point to create our own mapping of the status quo, based on the Solar Punk Manifesto. For Treister, the card set is a medium for making her conceptual art about power structures—which is often based on mappings—democratically available and shareable. Her detailed cards hold a ton of info in a small space. The set is affordable and easy to transport, it can be used collectively, and there is no need to enter a gallery to view it, allowing art to be further democratized.