Over the last two decades the dissemination of globalisation processes often focused on the
use of world maps. By employing the "appropriate" projection of the earths sphere for a two
dimensional depiction, a variety of "pictures of the world" emerged - in print an on the internet.
The course will focus on a variety of possible depictions of globalisation processes while
introducing a methodology for a critical utilization of maps – as a source of information, as
medium for the visualisation of research findings as research object. To connect these
approaches to a more tangible topic, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG,
https://sdgs.un.org/goals) are taken to set up an “atlas” comprising visualizations (maps) and
texts produced by the participants.
Some Literature:
Barthes, Roland (1957): Mythologies. Paris: Editions du Seuil. (Translation: Mythologies. London: Paladin, 1972).
Griggs, David et. al. (2013): Policy: Sustainable development goals for people and planet. In: Nature. Band 495, 2013, S. 305–307
Harley, John B. (1989): Deconstructing the Map. Cartographic 26, 2, 1-20.
Kraak Menno-Jan, et. al. (2020). Mapping for a Sustainable World. The United Nations: New York, NY (USA). Free to download: https://www.un.org/geospatial/sites/www.un.org.geospatial/files/MappingforaSustainableWorld20210124.pdf.
MacEachren, Alan M. (1995): How maps work: Representation, visualization and design, New York: Guilford Press.
Norichika, Kanie (2017) et. al. eds.: Governing through goals : sustainable development goals as governance innovation. Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press.
Wood, Denis (2003): Cartography is Dead (Thank God!), in: Cartographic Perspectives, Nr. 45, S. 4-7. [online] http://makingmaps.owu.edu/mm/cartographydead.pdf [06.07.2017].
- Trainer/in: europast europast
- Trainer/in: Eric Herbert Losang