Border Environments (Abstract)

About Border Environments (General Description) *

The border environment consists of an assemblage of physical and non-physical elements that manifest
an inhospitable geography.

About Border Environments studio (General Description of Franco-Italian Border) *

The studio will investigate the selected border environment of the Franco-Italian border region through
observing the “interplay”, between migrants and “processes”,” Socio-political” conditions that manifest
the border geographies of this selected region. We specifically observe the town of Ventimiglia and
Bardonecchia as spatial “entry points” towards our research.

Approach (01): (General Description of approach of investigating research)

The spatial condition is explored through lens of selected thematic elements that manifest these
inhospitable geographies navigated by migrants across the Franco-Italian border: The elements of
infrastructure, labour, temporality, terrain and solidarity will be investigated through devices of
knowledge production. This union between the output of analytical and media-based objects aims to
produce an offering that may cultivate inquiry, collaboration and intervention among a community of
actors determined to deconstruct border-making process and ideologies that sustain the struggle of
migrants in-transit.

Approach (02): (General Description of Archipelagic Framework)

The archipelagic framework affords our research the ability to situate our selected thematics across
distant geographies and temporalities as border-making processes, “anti-migrant” practices occur or
persist contiguously among central and peripheral borderscapes. The approach forms an intersectional
site of migrant struggle produced by the interaction of relational differences experienced by individuals
and geographies within these selected regions of Ventimiglia, Bardonchia and Alpine Maritimes. The
social, environmental, economic and historical formations of each inhospitable geography across the
selected sites communicate or react dialectally between each other to produce an archipelagic
network that represents the collective interplay faced by migrants in transit.

A comparative methodological approach affords our research the foster transnational solidarity
through a diverse representation of knowledge production devices and visual registers: maps, timelines,
models and film. These objects form as apparatus to dissect the granularity and ambiguity of migrant
spaces through lens of our selected thematics (ILTTS).
01:

The border environment consists of an assemblage of physical and non-physical elements that manifest
an inhospitable geography.

The studio will investigate the selected border environment of the Franco-Italian border region through
observing the “interplay”, between migrants and “processes”,” Socio-political” conditions that manifest
the border geographies of this selected region. We specifically observe the town of Ventimiglia and
Bardonecchia as spatial “entry points” towards our research.

The spatial condition is explored through lens of selected thematic elements that manifest these
inhospitable geographies navigated by migrants across the Franco-Italian border: The elements of
infrastructure, labour, temporality, terrain and solidarity will be investigated through devices of
knowledge production. This union between the output of analytical and media-based objects aims to
produce an offering that may cultivate inquiry, collaboration and intervention among a community of
actors determined to deconstruct border-making process and ideologies that sustain the struggle of
migrants in transit.

The archipelagic framework affords our research the ability to situate our selected thematics across
distant geographies and temporalities as border-making processes, “anti-migrant” practices occur or
persist contiguously among central and peripheral borderscapes. The approach forms an intersectional
site of migrant struggle produced by the interaction of relational differences experienced by individuals
and geographies within these selected regions of Ventimiglia, Bardonchia and Alpine Maritimes. The
social, environmental, economic and historical formations of each inhospitable geography across the
selected sites communicate or react dialectally between each other to produce an archipelagic
network that represents the collective interplay faced by migrants in transit.

A comparative methodological approach affords our research the foster transnational solidarity
through a diverse representation of knowledge production devices and visual registers: maps, timelines,
models and film.

02

The border environment consists of an assemblage of physical and non-physical elements that manifest
an inhospitable geography.

The studio will investigate the selected border environment of the Franco-Italian border region through
observing the “interplay”, between migrants and “processes”,” Socio-political” conditions that manifest
the border geographies of this selected region. We specifically observe the town of Ventimiglia and
Bardonecchia as spatial “entry points” towards our research.

The spatial condition is explored through lens of selected thematic elements that manifest these
inhospitable geographies navigated by migrants across the Franco-Italian border: The elements of
infrastructure, labour, temporality, terrain and solidarity will be investigated through devices of
knowledge production. This union between the output of analytical and media-based objects aims to
produce an offering that may cultivate inquiry, collaboration and intervention among a community of
actors determined to deconstruct border-making process and ideologies that sustain the struggle of
migrants in-transit.

The archipelagic framework affords our research the ability to situate our selected thematics across
distant geographies and temporalities as border-making processes, “anti-migrant” practices occur or
persist contiguously among central and peripheral borderscapes. The approach forms an intersectional
site of migrant struggle produced by the interaction of relational differences experienced by individuals
and geographies within these selected regions of Ventimiglia, Bardonchia and Alpine Maritimes. The
social, environmental, economic and historical formations of each inhospitable geography across the
selected sites communicate or react dialectally between each other to produce an archipelagic
network that represents the collective interplay faced by migrants in transit.

A comparative methodological approach affords our research the foster transnational solidarity
through a diverse representation of knowledge production devices and visual registers: maps, timelines,
models and film. These objects form as apparatus to dissect the granularity and ambiguity of migrant
spaces through lens of our selected thematics (ILTTS).