Out of the nuclear bunker into the fire next time
with Timothy Barney & Bradley Garrett.

Debra Benita Shaw will interrogate the way that architecture polices bodies and propose techniques for thinking – and living – space differently

A look at war maps in news and media, with a focus on the war in Ukraine.

Presentations from three researchers on how counter-mapping practices can expose how cartography supports programmes of political violence

This talk, by the authors of The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World, will explore the Soviet maps of Britain and elsewhere

An online presentation from Keith Lilley on using modern spatial technologies to analyse the cartography of the Western Front

In this webinar we will hear from three leading researchers on how maps are mobilised in conflict.

This seminar at the British Library explores the historical and contemporary links between war making and map making.

Online discussion on the history, archaeology, and ethnography of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park site.

Archaeologist-led tour of the Park exploring the history of the Park site from the Neolithic to the present-day.

Online discussion with authors, historians and academics involved in creating an online map and guide to the history of the Olympic Park site.

Naturalist-led tour of the Park exploring the natural history, flora and fauna of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Presentation of an incredible schools collaboration project that saw 2216 pupils and 123 teachers explore community through expanded art.

Two socially-engaged graphic artists present creative research practices that explore stories of urban experience through illustrated maps.

A presentation about an archival cartography project that brings to life the intimate stories of hundreds of refugees who fled Nazi persecution.

Alan Ereira presents a personal journey into the indigenous cartography of the Kogi people.

In this talk Roger Burrows maps out the emerging subterranean geography of residential basement developments across London post 2008.

Join us for the launch of New Directions in Radical Cartography with a panel discussion on radical mapping as a research practice…

William Bunge Memorial Lecture – Candace Fujikane: Elemental Cartographies & Pilina (Relationalities) of Climate Change

Members of Livingmaps Network discuss participatory mapping projects involving children and young people.

Presentations from researchers engaged with black counter-mapping: historic and current; geographical and artistic.

A conversation between four map-scholars responding to the pervasive spread of cartographic materials and commentaries related to COVID-19.

This is the eighth event in the programme FRONT LINES, BACK YARDS

This webinar features three presentations by artists located in lands deeply impacted by colonisation and its residual power dynamics. In each presentation the artists, scholars, and activists describe how they agitate and disrupt conventional mapping and generate works that incite critical conversations about the ongoing affects and politics of colonisation – on culture, ecology, and place.

This is the seventh event in the programme FRONT LINES, BACK YARDS

Dutch artist Jan Rothuizen joins us to discuss his work and lead a map drawing workshop!

This is the sixth event in the programme FRONT LINES, BACK YARDS
– Monthly online events exploring the local frontlines of our multiple crises and drawing on the innovative forms of social and cultural mapping emerging from the backyards created during lockdown.

This event brings together four researchers who walk as part of their creative practice…

This is the fifth event in the programme FRONT LINES, BACK YARDS
– Monthly online events exploring the local frontlines of our multiple crises and drawing on the innovative forms of social and cultural mapping emerging from the backyards created during lockdown.

A discussion about the devastating global effects of wildfires and why cultural perspectives on them matter for understanding climate change.

This is the forth event in the programme FRONT LINES, BACK YARDS
– Monthly online events exploring the local frontlines of our multiple crises and drawing on the innovative forms of social and cultural mapping emerging from the backyards created during lockdown.

This presentation features a social science experiment where citizens train an AI algorithm to design more liveable cities.

This is the third event in the programme FRONT LINES, BACK YARDS
– Monthly online events exploring the local frontlines of our multiple crises and drawing on the innovative forms of social and cultural mapping emerging from the backyards created during lockdown.

This event features contributions from three creative cartographers whose work addresses key issues of civic participation and urban democracy.

This is the second event in the programme FRONT LINES, BACK YARDS
– Monthly online events exploring the local frontlines of our multiple crises and drawing on the innovative forms of social and cultural mapping emerging from the backyards created during lockdown.

In this event, join co-editors and designers of Counterpoints: An Atlas of Displacement and Resistance in a conversation about the conceptual origins of the Atlas and its relevance in the current local and global context of the pandemic, racial uprisings, and economic inequity…