Radical Cartography with Philippe Rekacewicz

Philippe Rekacewicz  is a geographer, cartographer, journalist and information designer.  His projects which bring together cartography, art and politics, shows how communities produce and manage (and potentially destroy) their public space and public goods; and how political and economic powers produce the cartographic vision of the territories on which they operate, manipulating reality through lies which they translate into maps. Philippe follows particular issues such as demography, refugees, displaced people, migration as well as geopolitics and geostrategies.

In the workshop, I produced a map I called "My intersecting Worlds", which reflects the way I critically perceive my real and imagined worlds.

Watch Philippe Rekacewicz's talk at TEDxArendal.

Radical Cartography is challenging conventional views on international politics and economics, environmental issues, and conflict-related conditions. The French journalist and cartographer Philippe Rekacewicz, live at Narestø, Sørlandet and has been at the forefront of cartography as a journalistic genre and form of expression that (de/re)construct categories from which to understand the world and the structures of power that inhabit it.