A Gathering for Collective Mapping invites you to discover the hidden details in the streets of the Oude Westen. The textures of pavements and walls are captured using clay and ink, mapping and documenting the surroundings of BAR OMI.

With multidisciplinary artist Martina Farrugia and architect Edward Zammit, participants search for concealed elements in the city: a unique brick in a façade, a sprouting sidewalk plant, or a stray piece of litter. Press, imprint, and stamp the detail of your choice, and make it tangible in the form of your own clay mold and print.

Together, these clay molds and prints create a guestbook, in which everyone leaves their traces during the event. Alongside the details of the city, participants also leave their personal fingerprints, such as placing their drinks on the paper, as additional markers of the timeframe of the gathering. The individual impressions together form a shared record of place, time, and visual field notes.

Edward Zammit is an architectural designer based in Rotterdam. In 2022, he co-founded ‘MetaOffice’, a design agency experimenting with spatial interfaces as tools for bridging the digital and physical. He has worked in the fields of exhibition design, scenography and architecture.

Martina Farrugia is a multidisciplinary artist based between Malta and the Netherlands. With a background in art history, archaeology and digital art, her current artistic practice explores tangible cultural heritage and collective memory, translating her research and findings through various media.