Lab Director Kitu-Kara Alexandra Lamiña

Lab Director Kitu-Kara Alexandra Lamiña started this initiative in the Summer of 2025. This collective space aims to serve as a research group and digital community specializing in Indigenous geographic praxis, particularly in the roles of space-place, relationality, and power in the Indigenous resurgence.

Drawing on Indigenous values, we collaborate with Indigenous communities, organizations, and individuals in initiatives that better serve their self-determination goals and collective rights. A range of topics includes, but is not limited to, Indigenous planning, critical cartographies, geospatial methods, gender rights, urban assessments, art-based research, and more.

As a core mission of the lab is to advocate for socio-spatial justice and support geo-data sovereignty, preventing data extractivism, settler-driven datafication, state-cadastral archiving, and gender neutrality in geo-digital research. For this purpose, we prioritize the construction of long-term and engaged collaborations over short-term participatory approaches that are not meaningful for our potential partners.