An Atlas of Radical Cartography Presentation

1. Gordon, Rogers, Lewison,
et al , An Atlas of Radical
Cartography
Cindy Gao, Sarah Coplan, Avital Glibicky

2. An Atlas of Radical Cartography
A collection of 10 maps and 10 essays about social issues including:
● globalization to garbage
● surveillance to extraordinary rendition
● statelessness to visibility
● deportation to migration.
The maps are inherently political.
The “upside-down” world map,
appears on the
cover of this book.

4. What is Radical Cartography?
Radical Cartography: the practice of mapmaking that subverts
conventional notions in order to actively promote social change.
Our criteria for selecting these ten maps emphasized
radical inquiry and activist engagement.
Typical land-cover symbols from the early twentieth century from
John Clayton Tracy, Plane Surveying: A Text-book and Pocket
Manual (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1906), 521

5. Purpose + Beginnings
An Atlas of Radical Cartography to act as a primer
on issues which the maps and essays address:
identity, land-use, imprisonment, energy, migration.
Jai Sen, a founder of Unnayan, a collective of
“radical planners” working in 1980s Kolkata on
dwelling rights for the working poor.

6. Sen wonders how Unnayan’s maps would differ if the people had a part in making them
He compares the Unnayan maps to the New York City Garbage Machine, a map by the Center for Urban
Pedagogy (CUP), which was made with the input of student’s own narratives and connections
New York City Garbage Machine, a map by the
Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
Unnayan’s Map by Jai Sen

7. Pedro Lasch
Pedro Lasch’s Map- shows the America without boundaries
He names the map Latino/a America, exposing what is generally hidden from maps of the U.S. and
showing people’s paths and journey when they cross the Mexico/US border and points to globalization
“Neoliberalism demands the privileged mobility of imperial citizens, both people and corporations, while
producing a shadow class of displaced non-citizens”

8. An Architektur
Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias write about how these types of maps recreate the
territory.
Geography of the Fürth Departure Center by An Architektur takes this concept to a local scale.
The maps and essay show the dehumanizing migration that immigrants must endure.
Geography of the Fürth Departure Center by An Architektur

9. A world map (Ashley Hunt)
as a whole, the map is unreadable.(Avery Gordon)
criminalization
disappearance
internment
Dispossession
institutionalization.

10. Lize Mogel's map
From South to North

11. Jane Tsong's the los angeles water cycle
details connections from the scale of the region down to an urban center.

12. Routes of Least Surveillance (Natascha Sadr )