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.

A core mission of the lab is to advocate for socio-spatial justice and support geo-data sovereignty. We work to prevent data extractivism, settler-driven datafication, and state-cadastral archiving, while resisting gender erasure in geo-digital research. To this end, we prioritize long-term, engaged collaborations over short-term participatory approaches that hold little meaning for our partners.