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18 April 2020

Mapping Solidarity in Times of the Covid-19

In times of the global pandemic, around the world, different organizations use maps to visualize where solidarity practices occur. These maps facilitate access to vital resources and services. In some cases, they are used also, to organize solidarity, to coordinate distribution and show where we can engage ourselves. While maps illustrating the pandemic’s spreading became […]

11 April 2020

Counter-Mapping Documentary!

We are happy to announce the online release of “This Is Not an Atlas – A Documentary on Counter-Cartographies“. The short documentary was filmed during the book’s release event in Berlin and features Denis Wood, Philippe Rekacewicz, Nermin ElSherif, Bureau d’Études and the Anti-Eviction-Mapping-Project. There is also a version with spanish subtitles, and hopefully with […]

9 April 2020

Block Bayer Online Mapping Action

Also during corona quarantine times there are nice posibilites to continue counter-mapping. Please join the Block Bayer collective online mapping action on the 17th of April. “On 17th April, the International Day of Small Peasant Resistance, we plan to take on the destructive agro-giant BAYER through an act of virtual resistance. Without having to step […]

2 May 2019

Goldman Prize for Mapuche involved in environmental activism and counter-cartographies

Alberto Curamil is the 2019 Goldman Prize Recipient for South and Central America. He is an indigenous Mapuche, who organized the people of Araucanía to stop the construction of two hydroelectric projects on the sacred Cautín River in central Chile. The destructive projects, canceled in late 2016, would have diverted hundreds of millions of gallons […]

23 March 2019

Este No Es un Atlas – Convención de Contra-Cartografías en Bogotá

Queremos invitarles a un encuentro de contra-cartografias y la presentación del libro “This Is Not an Atlas” – Una colección global de contra-cartografías(www.notanatlas.org) que realizaremos el jueves 28 de marzo (18:00 – 21:00) y el viernes 29 de marzo (18:00 – 22:00) en el casa Jauría en Bogotá (calle 24 # 5-75). La actividad del […]