This arts-based workshop is facilitated by LEAP Lab, a transnational arts/science collective based in Cambridge, UK, shaped by Global South and diasporic perspectives. We invite participants to challenge Western mapping paradigms historically complicit in colonial projects—not only through drawing borders, but also through the imposition of imposing standardized, linear time (e.g. Greenwich Mean Time), which compresses diverse rhythms of life into accelerated, extractive schedules.

Through embodied and multisensory practices, participants will engage in artistic mapping exercises that reimagine space-time via affective traces, non-human perspectives, and natural materials. What might a mycelial map look like? How do birds map the world? These collective emergent maps will foreground interconnectedness over division.

Meanwhile, a time-disruptive performance will invite participants to ‘break the clock’—moving intuitively, walking slowly, or pausing—experiencing time differently through their bodies. This embodied resistance gestures toward indigenous temporalities and ecological rhythms, unsettling the homogenising pace of colonial time and inviting us to imagine futures drawn from entanglement—woven through relationship, rather than control..

Held both onsite and online, this workshop opens a space for decolonial cartographies—foregrounding relationality, multiplicity, and the politics of mattering. Together, we remap the world through artivist practice, disrupting inherited logics of control and imagining alternative futures grounded in connection.

Team members (LEAP Lab):

• Yuanting Qiu https://www.qiuyuanting.com (Artist-researcher)

• James Norton http://www.na-films.com (Local artist)

• Kevin Lim https://www.kevintplim.com (Postdoc in Physics & musician)

• Lushi Liu https://lushi.cargo.site (Artist-researcher)

• Allison Walker https://www.culturalfutureslab.com (Heritage consultant & creative practitioner)

• Yueran (Sandy) Yang (PhD in Education)