Free the map x De Balie
The Politics of Cartography
Tuesday 7 October, 19:30, De Balie (tickets)
All maps are political. How do the lines on a map shape our view of the world — of people on the move, and of nature itself?
In this programme, border professor Henk van Houtum, artist Agat Sharma en cartographer Marjolijn Boterenbrood explore a new cartographic imagination, one rooted in human experience and connection rather than control. With alternative mapmaking, Free the map calls for a radical rethinking of how we view the world — and what a map released from its territorial trap might look like.
The spoken language of this program is English.
Tuesday 7 October, 19:30
De Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 1017 RR Amsterdam
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About the book
A map is a visual story of the world. It feeds our imagination and shapes our view of the world. A standard atlas, however, predominantly tells only one story, that of the nation-state. It depicts a world in which people are uniformly packed into national containers, enclosed by borders, and in which migration is often represented as threatening invasion arrows.
Free the map goes beyond this narrow, state-centric cartography. The book argues for a new cartographic story: a Hermes – the grandson of Atlas and the god of mobility and human connections. To this end, it discusses several visually compelling, alternative cartographic representations of borders and migration.
Free the map ends with a call to action. Various artists and cartographers offer exciting ready-to-use Hermes challenges for education and public Maplabs.
Let’s free the map from its territorial trap!
Buy the book in your local bookstore or in our webshop.
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