26/05 ’25
Subjective Atlas of the Philippines
🕐 Monday 26 May 2025, 8am - 6pm
📍 Casa San Miguel, San Antonio, Zambales (PHIL)
🙏🏻 Josephine Turalba, Arriana Turalba, Portia Placino
What is your lived experience of the Philippines? Moreover, how would you map that? From your habits to daily routes, mobility to social fabrics, beauty to fears, anger to hope, what issues are at stake for you, and which perspectives need attention? We seek to map the region from your perspective during a collaborative process.
Initiated by the Philippine Women’s University (PWU) we will develop a Subjective Atlas of the Philippines, to be published in 2026. We will organise a series of workshops across the Philippines that aim for more multi-vocal and plural-diverse representations. In these workshops, we will foster local narratives and community insights to deepen the sense of place-based identity and resilience among communities affected by territorial disputes. It is a psychosocial research initiative in which we employ creative mapping to investigate Filipinos’ lived experiences—particularly the emotional and socio-cultural dynamics. The workshops will unite local artists, community members, and fisherfolk in a collaborative exploration of perspectives shaped by the West Philippine Sea conflicts and our interconnection with water.
Institutional partners
Casa San Miguel, San Antonio, Zambales
Orange Project, Bacolod City
Philippine Women’s University (PWU)
PWU Arts-Based Research Center (ARC)
Subjective Editions
Supported by
Flemish Community
FWO, research Foundation Flanders
Department of Trade and Industry of the Philippines (DTI)
Victorias City, Negros Occidental
Project team
Initiator: Josephine Turalba (PWU)
Coordinator: Arriana Turalba
Editor in Chief: Annelys de Vet (Subjective Editions)
Graphic Design: Subjective Editions
Guiding editor: Leonardo Munalim
Contributors: Members of the different communties, as well as PWU students
Publisher: Kurt Vanbelleghem (Subjective Editions)
Communication: Dominique Arcenas, Amiel Kim Capitan
Curator exhibition: Portia Placino
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