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Eighteen estimated stops, nine countries, Marrakesh to Lagos.
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What this prototype is and how to use it.
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Draft writing from the road.
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Capture, counter-cartography, care, listening, assembly.
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Vocabulary, sources and field rules.
Route chapters
Morocco
01Marrakesh02Essaouira03Agadir04Tan-Tan05Laayoune06Dakhla
Mauritania
07Nouadhibou08Nouakchott
Senegal
09Saint-Louis10Dakar11Tambacounda
Mali
12Bamako
Burkina Faso
13Ouagadougou
Ghana
14Kumasi15Accra
Togo
16Lomé
Benin
17Cotonou
Nigeria
18Lagos
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Chapter 03 · Morocco

03
RECONSTRUCTION→MEMORY

Agadir

(Rebuilt city, beach, Souss plain)

14 OctMorocco · coastanchor

A city rebuilt by plan. What does the plan carry and erase?

For whom? · By whom? · Under what care?

Field conditions · liveFull reading →

Reading conditions…

Capture · By whom?

Record one detail the official plan did not anticipate.

Sound note · 15 s

Record one detail the official plan did not anticipate.

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The ◉ photo button records a fragment. Voice and note record the field decision around it.

What kind of trace is this? · 0 answers
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Tap the reading that matches this chapter. The thermometer shows how different field lenses read the route.

PhotoWritingFilmResearchPublic artTransdisciplinary

Provocation

What does a rebuilt city remember, and what does the new plan forget?

Field log

Note one trace of the rebuilt grid and one trace of the life that exceeds it.

Route scaffolds: images and sound seeds↓

These are route scaffolds, not confirmed stops. Each point holds a Wikimedia image slot, a Freesound query and a blog prompt so the road can replace the estimate with lived material.

Railway station near Tambacounda, Senegal.
Wikimedia Commons

Doushey · CC BY-SA 4.0

Milestone 15 · Chapter 03

Tambacounda

Senegal · Estimated sequence 15

Eastern Senegal inland road waypoint

Eastern Senegal, a railway and road junction in the heat. The corridor commits to the interior here.

Care note

Keep names, faces and voices private unless consent, context and a reason to publish are all clear.

Freesound API seed
Sahel road bus station market field recording
Street scene in Kayes, Mali.
Wikimedia Commons

NOAA personnel, African Monsoon Activities 2006 · Public domain

Milestone 16 · Chapter 03

Kayes

Mali · Estimated sequence 16

Western Mali waypoint

Western Mali, often named among the hottest inhabited towns. The Senegal River and the old railway define it.

Care note

Keep names, faces and voices private unless consent, context and a reason to publish are all clear.

Cite du Niger, Bamako.
Wikimedia Commons

Rgaudin · Public domain

Milestone 17 · Chapter 03

Bamako

Mali · Estimated sequence 17

Mali capital waypoint

The Niger arrives. Inland, certainty drops away: passing through is not the same as understanding.

Care note

Keep names, faces and voices private unless consent, context and a reason to publish are all clear.

Market scene in Sikasso, Mali.
Wikimedia Commons

C. Hugues · CC BY-SA 2.0

Milestone 18 · Chapter 03

Sikasso

Mali · Estimated sequence 18

Southern Mali waypoint

Southern Mali's green belt and a historic market crossroads near three borders. Trade is the through-line.

Care note

Keep names, faces and voices private unless consent, context and a reason to publish are all clear.

+ 5 more milestones in the media atlas.

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Status
Estimated stop
Country
Morocco
Leg
170 km from Essaouira
Practice
Urban reading

Rebuilt grid

INLAND TURNSahel, repair, movement, uncertaintyTransit is not the same as comprehension

Earthquake, reconstruction and the modern plan

Agadir was rebuilt on a modern plan after the 1960 earthquake. The estimated stop reads a planned city against its beach economy and the agricultural Souss plain that feeds it.

What success looks like

A careful fragment notices how reconstruction and planning shaped daily life, rather than treating the city as a generic resort.

For whom?

Who does the rebuilt city serve, and who lives at its edges?

By whom?

Record one detail the official plan did not anticipate.

“Planning is also memory and forgetting.”
Counter-Atlas note
“Read the ordinary street, not only the seafront.”
Field rule · this prototype