Counter-Cartographies: Mapping Back our World w/ Boris Michel and Paul Schweizer (E87)

This is a conversation with Boris Michel and Paul Schweizer who helped create the ‘This Is Not an Atlas‘ book for Kollectiv Orangotango, which is available as a free PDF.Topics Discussed:What is ‘This is Not an Atlas’?What traditional cartographies eraseThe relationship between maps and powerWhen do maps work?Examples of Alarm Phone and Indigenous mappingHow to become an occasional cartographerDiscussion of: Is This Is Not an Atlas an Atlas? On the Pitfalls of Editing a Global Collection of Counter-CartographiesHow can cartography help us understand our relationship to nature?What is hydrocartography?Recommended books:Manual of collective mapping by iconoclasistasCounterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance by Anti-Eviction Mapping ProjectWeaponizing Maps: Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas by Joe Bryan and Denis WoodForensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability by Eyal WeizmanThe Natures of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World by Denis Wood and John Fels