Manifesto

• Art in cartography means much more than designing aesthetically pleasing maps;
• In this context art covers all forms of artistic expressions;
• Cartographers, artists, researchers from the humanities need to work collaboratively in order to redefine the contours of the relationships between arts and cartography;
• Real interdisciplinary activities call for special measures (e.g. develop a common language and a mutual understanding);
• In the first place, time is required in order to build solid bridges between cartography and the arts;
• Therefore, we want to promote a slow publication philosophy (focusing more on quality/diversity than on quantity);
• We also want to promote diversity in terms of activities and outcomes (e.g. festivals, public lectures, performances, exhibitions, screenings, etc.)
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