Di Sini Ada Cerita 这里有故事: A workshop on making sense of places, mapping memories & telling stories

In this free workshop, Fatin & Chok from Youths United for Earth (@yufemy), both trained in ethnography, will walk you through how to remember places, plants, and people for the stories they quietly hold. You'll be guided on how to cultivate your own system of documenting local knowledge and archiving memory through questions and maps. By the end, we hope you can take away a starting kit to curate a fun encyclopedia of your own!

All you need to bring is your journal, some pens/pencils, memorabilia, scrap materials that means something to you, and a mind that's ready to reminisce.

The workshop will be conducted in English, but you are highly encouraged to create in your mother tongue or other languages.

about the facilitators

Both trained in anthropology, the facilitators, Fatin & Chok, believe that everything on the face of this Earth is more than what they seem to be. Things and places hold stories heavier than the sound of their names—memories, knowledge, forgotten pasts.

Both in her everyday life and advocacy, Fatin uses mapping, listening, and a little ethnographic nosiness to look at familiar places with fresh eyes. She's curious about places and the stories they quietly hold and believes that getting to know a place more deeply helps us notice how entangled we are with nature and with one another.

As for Chok, mapping is a process of placemaking, of reclaiming space as one's own. Mapping connects us to the fundamentals of taking part in a civilization. She believes that remembering the stories of the people and places in our own way is an act of archiving spaces in time—a museum of our own life living in a world at this specific point in time.