Constellation - Language

Summary

This booklet is an extension of the book Constellations - a Manual of Tools for Collective Mapping published by Casa Gallina in 2020, aimed at producing tools to enable communities to gain a critical knowledge of their territories.

In July 2023 the methodology Constellations and its adaptation for Tracing the Common permitted the encounter Voices and Live Territories, where dynamizers, teachers and defenders of original languages from Mexico reflected and worked together at Casa Gallina. This event highlighted the need for a chapter on the constellation of languages in order to apply collective mapping to linguistic reflection. The ensuing iconography, which is the result of collective work, describes the multiple realities of these languages, including threats, allies, resistance and hopes from various points of view and territories.