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.

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Topics Discussed:

What is ‘This is Not an Atlas’?
What traditional cartographies erase
The relationship between maps and power
When do maps work?
Examples of Alarm Phone and Indigenous mapping
How to become an occasional cartographer
Discussion of: Is This Is Not an Atlas an Atlas? On the Pitfalls of Editing a Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
How can cartography help us understand our relationship to nature?
What is hydrocartography?

Recommended books:

Manual of collective mapping by iconoclasistas
Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance by Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
Weaponizing Maps: Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas by Joe Bryan and Denis Wood
Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability by Eyal Weizman
The Natures of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World by Denis Wood and John Fels

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