“Cities can be understood and represented through three levels: the level of the territory, which today we can describe in its topographical and structural details; the level of activities, which reveals the city as a web of flows, relationships, and data; and the level of meaning, in which the observer is no longer external, but becomes the protagonist and point of view of the map itself.
Similarly, work is not limited to the physical space where it takes place; it is not just the result of tasks and activities, nor is it a sum of data and statistics. The “desired work” is above all meaning, the possibility of agency, identity, and collective vision. Mapping work—and in particular the work we still desire, imagine, and project into the future—is an act that goes beyond the representation of roles and places to open up a political and poetic reflection: what does “work” mean today? How are its emotional, value-based, and relational geographies constructed?
For this hackathon, the invitation is to go beyond the simple visualization of work environments. Participants are asked to invent new maps of desired work: visual, sound, and conceptual tools—AI developments, storytelling, data collages, digital performances—that not only represent the segmentation of activities or the distribution of professions, but also give shape to identities, values, needs, and dreams.
Leaving behind territory as a physical boundary to generate maps in which meaning and desire are the true center and the narrative opens up to complexities, stratifications, and possibilities. Because only by redrawing the maps of work can we address its contemporary complexity and collectively generate new imaginaries and new territories of possibility.
Good luck. “