Modern Maps Don’t Have a Memory

From Counter Mapping, at Emergence Magazine by Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

An article and accompanying short film (re)published January 2021

“…modern maps hold no memory of what the land was before. Few of us have thought to ask what truths a map may be concealing, or have paused to consider that maps do not tell us where we are from or who we are. Many of us do not know the stories of the land in the places where we live; we have not thought to look for the topography of a myth in the surrounding rivers and hills. Perhaps this is because we have forgotten how to listen to the land around us.”

Absorb this insightful look at storytelling and memory-making at Emergence.