The following maps are the result of a long-term observation process that I made in many airports mainly in Europe. At the same time they represent a symbol. The Observation Process The maps show how the general public, and specifically the passengers, are moving in a space carefully designed by an “invisible” force. By this […]
Imaging Homelessness in a City of Care
Imaging Homelessness in a City of Care was a participatory mapping project undertaken with 30 single homeless people in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK) in 2014. The project’s objectives were threefold: to pilot an innovative mapping-based methodology; to offer single homeless individuals an opportunity to comment on local service provision and delivery; and to inform and challenge public […]
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. […]
Webpage Launch
Hello counter cartographers from all over. Today we are happy to launch notanatlas.org! Until the release of the book on October 20th we will upload a new counter cartography project (almost) every day. We will do so until all the counter-maps in our publication “This Is Not an Atlas” (transcript 2018) are online. From October 20th […]
Mapping the Squatting Movement
In the beginning of the 1980s the squatting movement was an important topic within the local politics of Berlin. This movement was triggered by increased housing shortage while entire streets of apartments were being evicted, ultimately leading to their decay. The fall of the Berlin Wall in the beginning of the 1990s was followed by […]
