@rhizomadrlab

Rhizoma Lab conducts research at the intersection of digital cartography, computational geography, and decolonial studies through its flagship "Out of Map" project. The initiative examines how conventional mapping platforms and algorithms encode power structures and colonial perspectives into seemingly neutral digital systems. Their investigations specifically focus on data centers, fiber optic networks, and environmental sensor deployments as key sites of analysis. The lab combines Indigenous knowledge frameworks with critical data methodologies to develop alternative computational mapping approaches. Their practice-based research documents the material footprint of global digital infrastructure while creating counter-cartographies that center marginalized spatial perspectives. This work builds on established scholarship in critical infrastructure studies and digital ethics. The research output includes both theoretical analysis and applied methodological frameworks for examining technological systems. Rhizoma Lab's findings address the social and environmental impacts of large-scale computation and data infrastructure. Their published work contributes to academic discourse on decolonial computing, critical cartography, and human-environment relations in the digital age.