The gallery
10 essays across the history of cartography. Filter by era, region, or the shared meta-lens - or search by title.
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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.
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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 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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