The gallery
12 essays across the history of cartography. Filter by era, region, or the shared meta-lens - or search by title.
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6000 BC – AD 2024
The MapA Non-Linear History of Mapping
Eight thousand years of world-mapping read against the grain: every leap in accuracy, usability, or control exacts a quiet sacrifice in some other way of understanding space.
AD 150 – AD 2018
The MapEvery View Has a Position
Projection is not a contest for the least distorted world. It is a declared choice about which spatial relationships should survive when a curved Earth becomes a flat, situated image.
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AD 150 – AD 2024
The BorderThe Trench & the Museum of Dacian Cartography
Nineteen centuries of mapping Dacia and Romania staged as an excavation: maps as artefacts above the ground line, and as stratified silences below it.
AD 106 – AD 1974
The BorderThe migration of a word
Dacia looks like one continuous name. Its witnesses tell a different story: provinces, a diocese, a coin legend, Scandinavia and an antiquarian reconstruction, joined only where evidence permits a line.
Room 5
AD 1150 – AD 1750
The RoadVenice, Sicily, and Two Ways of Drawing the Same Sea
Six centuries of Mediterranean cartography set as a duel: Venice's maritime network against Sicily's administered territory - two ideologies of space drawn onto one sea.
AD 1275 – AD 1571
The RoadThe Routes Beneath the Portolan
Portolan charts made Mediterranean trade look effortless. The VMN authority tables reveal the jurisdictions, schedules, labour and negotiated privileges beneath every clean line.
AD 1150 – AD 1764
The RoadThe Hanseatic League and the Geography of Privilege
A commercial system from London to Novgorod became powerful without acquiring a continuous territory. Its operative map survived in routes, privileges, warehouses, city jurisdictions and archives.
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600 BC – AD 1793
The TheatreA Map of Maps
Fifteen landmark maps from antiquity to early-modern geodesy, each plotted not on a timeline of progress but as a coordinate in a six-dimensional space of cartographic values.
AD 570 – AD 1581
The TheatreSacred Space Before the Border
Nine Christian maps from Madaba to Bünting show how a centre, an orientation or a chain of stations can organise lived space without measured distance.
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