From March 24 to 28, 2025, the INTERMAPS team participated in the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in Detroit, Michigan—one of the world’s leading conferences on geography and spatial social sciences. Under the theme "Making Spaces of Possibility," AAG 2025 brought together hundreds of scholars and practitioners from around the globe.

Participation in the "Minor Histories of Geographic Information Systems" Panel Session

On March 26, Núria Font-Casaseca contributed as discussant to the session "Minor Histories of Geographic Information Systems," co-organized by Jack Swab (University of Kentucky), with participants such as Matthew Wilson, Meagan Snow, Carlos Sandoval Olascoaga, and Ian Spangler. The panel focused on critical and object-oriented histories of GIS, drawing from science and technology studies and digital geographies. The session highlighted the concept of "minor GISciences" (Wilson 2021; Font-Casaseca & Rodó-Zárate 2024), exploring underrepresented and alternative GIS developments and uses. Núria presented her work on critical GIS approaches and mentioned the need to look at other disciplines in order to advance GIS. 

Three Sessions on "Building Feminist Mapping Tools and Praxis"

On March 27, the INTERMAPS team co-organized three consecutive sessions titled "Building Feminist Mapping Tools and Praxis," coordinated by Meghan Kelly (Syracuse University), Maria Rodó-Zárate, and Núria Font. These sessions showcased research and tool-making efforts grounded in feminist, queer, antiracist and decolonial theories, emphasizing digital methodologies and visual techniques that challenge the norms of conventional mapping platforms. Digital tools and platforms discussed in these sessions included Relief Maps (Rodó-Zárate 2014).

In particular, INTERMAPS contributed two featured presentations:

• Maria Rodó-Zárate presented "Mapping Climate Impacts: An Approach to Everyday Experiences with Climate Relief Maps," introducing a methodology for visualizing emotional and intersectional spatialities of climate impacts.

• Núria Font-Casaseca delivered "Rethinking geospatial technologies for capturing relational and emotional dimensions of place" focusing on new approaches to GIS to capture other dimensions of place.

Maria Rodó-Zárate also joined panels featuring international participants including Nick Lally, Clancy Wilmott, Majd Al-Shihabi, and others.

Contribution to Intersectional Feminist Climate Justice Sessions

Mar Coll Planell presented "(Un)equal Impacts: Exploring Everyday Experiences of Climate Change through Intersectionality" in the session "Intersectional Feminist Approaches to Climate Justice, Part 2. This session focused on qualitative and feminist methods to understand the intimate and everyday dimensions of climate injustice. She presented her PhD thesis work on everyday experience of climate change in Catalonia.

INTERMAPS’ involvement in AAG 2025 reaffirms its leadership in developing critical and interdisciplinary methodologies to understand intersectional inequalities in space. Beyond research, these contributions reflect a strong commitment to social transformation through mapping as a theoretical, methodological, and political practice.