Questioning Maps – Designing Maps

The WELTSTUDIO special invites visitors to question maps and learn how to design their own. This BERLIN GLOBAL theme day is aimed at everyone, both young and old, who is interested in maps, enjoys designing them and is open to new perspectives.

Maps are powerful tools for understanding the world. How do maps shape our perception and influence the way we treat our environment? How can we use the power of maps creatively?

Programme

The WELTSTUDIO features three expansive installations that invite visitors to experience new and creative ways of making maps. At the weaving cartographer, the body cartographer and the rolling cartographer, we invite visitors to design their own community maps.

With the support of critical cartographers and artists, visitors create alternative maps in a workshop using a variety of different materials, including weaving, painting and glueing. Maps are created from wool, on huge posters or in small 3D formats.

A special guided tour explores the maps featured in the exhibitions After Nature by Humboldt University of Berlin and BERLIN GLOBAL by Stadtmuseum Berlin.

Short academic lectures on the Humboldt Collection Hein of the Stadtmuseum Berlin and the Humboldt Collection of the HU Berlin shed light on historical maps in their collections.

Visitors work with artists Camila Narbaitz Sarsur and Anne Kurr to develop collective map systems.

One very special guest is the Maritiem Museum Rotterdam. Museum experts from the Netherlands give a lecture explaining the historical origins of coastal maps and invite visitors to create their own maps.

Children can listen to and read illustrated stories about the oceans in BERLIN GLOBAL’s cosy lounge, where a variety of other books are available for browsing.