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1 July 2019 By Not-An-Atlas

Deep Mapping Workshop & Screening of Counter-Cartography Documentary

We are happy to invite all of you to an Not-an-Atlas event with Brett Bloom & Bonnie Fortune (in cooperation with Le Monde Diplomatique – Deutsche Ausgabe) this Tuesday, July 2nd, at the 142 Tage für 99 Jahre! Dauergartenfestival of the Prinzessinnengarten (Prinzenstraße 35-38, 10969 Berlin).

In their workshop about Deep Mapping, Brett Bloom and Bonnie Fortune will address Counter-Cartographies as a way to be conscious of a place in such a manner as to hold multiple layers of understanding of the present moment in a non-reductive and robust manner. This is in contradistinction to the ways we normally speed through and consume the landscapes and places of our petroleum-driven, industrialized lives, and the related sense of self this produces. https://notanatlas.org/maps/deep-maps/

Kollektiv orangotango will exhibit a selection of Counter-Cartographies from the book “This Is Not an Atlas” and present the documentary “This Is Not an Atlas – This Is a Documentary on Counter-Cartographies”. While the exhibition displays a selection of counter-mapping projects from all over the world, the documentary shows how maps influence our understanding of the world, are a useful tool to deconstruct it, can be applied to confront social injustices or create new commons. https://notanatlas.org/

Program (facebook-Event):
20:00 Opening Counter-Maps Exhibition
20:30 Presentation of Not-an-Atlas Project
20:40 Workshop on Deep Mapping with Brett Bloom & Bonnie Fortune
21:45 Screening of Not-an-Atlas Documentary

11 May 2019 By Not-An-Atlas

Back in Berlin

This Is Not an Atlas will be presented next week in Berlin at the Linke Buchtage.
From Friday on a selection of counter-maps will be exposed in the rooms of the book fair and on Sunday (14:00 – 16:00) we will present the project Not-an-Atlas (in German!), show our brand new documentary on counter-cartographies and discuss our recent insights from Latin America as well as future projects.

15 November 2018 By Not-An-Atlas

Impressions from Release Events

Our Release Events on the 20th of October at ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik) in Berlin and on the 25th of October at W3 (Werkstatt für internationale Kultur und Politik) in Hamburg were great! Over 400 people in Berlin an around 50 in Hamburg attending lectures and workshops, connecting with each other, and of course taking first glimpses into the book. Thanks to all the guests, supporters and visitors.

Here some words from Denis Wood on the events (http://www.deniswood.net/news.htm) and a nice report in Spanish from the Colectivo de Geografía Crítica de Ecuador (https://geografiacriticaecuador.org/2018/11/07/lanzamiento-de-this-is-not-an-atlas-en-berlin).

Impressions from Berlin:

Fotos from Hamburg can you find here: https://www.facebook.com/not.an.atlas/

Photos by Nico Baumgarten

24 September 2018 By Not-An-Atlas

Release Events

We are very happy to announce that finally This Is Not an Atlas will be released as a book and want to celebrate this event. After four years of collectively editing, we want to foster the encounter of counter-cartographers from diverse contexts around the globe not only on the pages of Not-an-Atlas but also on the ground. A series of events, consisting of exhibitions, panel discussions, and workshops, aim to facilitate the exchange of counter-cartographic knowledge and practices. We want to present this global collection of counter-cartographies in a way that activists, academics, artists, counter-cartographers, editors and authors of This Is Not an Atlas can share their experiences in different ways. The events in Berlin and Hamburg will be held mainly in English.

20^thof October in Berlin at ZKU (Links: FB-Event & Z/KU)
Guests: Philippe Rekacewicz, Denis Wood, Bureau d’Études, Erin McElroy (Anti-Eviction Map), Berlin besetzt, Alarm Phone, Colectivo de Geografia Critica de Ecuador and many more. The detailed program is coming soon. Organized by kollektiv orangotango and Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.

25^thof October in Hamburg at W3 (Links: FB-Event & W3)
Guests: Denis Wood, Bureau d’Études, Erin McElroy (Anti-Eviction Map). The detailed program is coming soon. Organized by kollektiv orangotango, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Hamburg and Working Group Critical Geographies of Global Inequalities.

Supported by Le Monde diplomatique, transcript, anstiftung and ASA FF e.V.

More events are planned in 2018 & 2019 in Europe, Latinamerica … Soon more information here on notanatlas.org/blog/ or on facebook