DESCOLONIZANDO LINGUAGENS CARTOGRÁFICAS - A CONSTRUÇÃO DE UMA CARTOGRAFIA ENGAJADA.

In this article we present some practices developed by Kollektiv Orangotango a circle of critical geographers and friends in coevolution since the 2000s. In addition to artistic interventions in the public space, critical cartography is a crucial part of our work, we have co-conducted various collective mappings, published educational mapping materials, multilingual manuals, video tutorials and an international collection of contracartography called This Is Not an Atlas. Collective mapping is a process of territorial reflection, awareness, and selforganization, integrating different types of knowledge, every day, traditional, incarnated, and academic, that can flow together and make room for action. Sentimos that it is crucial to integrate a notion of "feelingthink" - feel/think - in what, with reference to Bell Hooks can be called "engaged cartography", that is, a cartography based on dialogue that engages and both "heart and mind". Establishing a spatial perspective on the dialectical relationship between us humans and our environment, we understand collective mapping as a process of geographic literacy in daily life and space of action through dialogue, "mediated by the world". As popular educators, militant researchers, we fight for a collective horizontal production of knowledge through practical interventions and theoretical reflection from the perspective of an educating city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]