Depicting the world territory and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of
interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to
represent the world and to enable circulation communication and economic exchange. Today IT
companies are a driving force in this field and change our view of the world how we
communicate navigate and consume globally. Questions of privacy authorship and economic
interests are highly relevant to cartography's practices. So how to deal with such powers and
what is the critical role of cartography in it? How might a bottom-up perspective (and actions)
in map-making change the conception of a geopolitical space?
