Inhabiting Body-territories in the Datafied City: a Zine about embodiment

This is a fanzine. A fanzine, or zine, is a self-published material inspired by the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) idea. I have produced this fanzine to disseminate what I learned and found from my two-month research stay at Instituto Mora, located in Mexico City, thanks to the support of the PRODIGEES project. I was in Mexico from July to September 2024 to exchange with researchers, social movements, and activists so that I could elaborate further on the concept of body-territory as a tool to understand how data-driven urbanism enacts different bodies in the cities. Inspired by workshops I attended during my research stay, I make this fanzine a digital collage of notes, references, ideas, insights, and, why not, affections and memories. Those pieces put together a collective learning process around the topics I was dedicated to. This is a summary of reflections on the possibilities brought by the increasing datafication of cities. In this sense, this work claims that departing from the body as the first scale of territoriality is an essential starting point for thinking about urban data. As a Latin American researcher in diaspora, I hope this humble work also crosses borders and boundaries, breaking walls to foster a dialogue about other ways of living in the big data era.