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Category Archives: Art and Cartography

Invitation to the ICC2017 Pre-Conference Workshop on Maps & Emotions

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The ICA Commission on Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization, the ICA Commission on Art and Cartography and the ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping invite you to a pre-conference workshop on Maps and Emotions. The goal of this workshop is to provide an intellectual and creative space to share different ideas and methodologies that can help further exploring the complex relationships that exist between places, maps and emotions.

Please find the detailed Call for Papers here.

Location

The workshop will be hosted by The George Washington University, located downtown Washington DC. The workshop will be free of charge, but the participants will have to pay for their food and lodging (a list will be provided on the ICC2017 website).

Timeline

  • 30 September 2016 – Deadline for submitting abstracts or activities proposals
  • 1 November 2016 – Successful Applicants notified
  • 15 January 2017 – Participants confirm their participation
  • February 2017 – Preliminary program released
  • May 2017 – Final program released
  • 1–2 July 2017 – Workshop prior to the ICC 2017
Category: Art and Cartography, Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization, Commission News, Topographic Mapping
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President’s Blog: A map perspective on the sustainable development goals

The Sustainable Development Goals, officially known as Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are a UN Initiative. Official website: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org

In the light of the International Map Year (IMY), the ICA and its commissions are highlighting the value of cartography by “mapping” the UN sustainable development goals.

In the past months, a set of posters has been created, one for each sustainable development goal. They do not map the goals and their target based on indicators as such. The poster series tells the story of cartographic diversity, of mapping options, and of multiple map perspectives. Each of the goals has been mapped from a particular perspective by different ICA Commissions. All posters have a short take-home-message that should make one aware of particular strengths of the map.

The posters as well as the catalog for the poster exhibition can be found on icaci.org/maps-and-sustainable-development-goals

A huge thank you to all commissions involved and to Wim Feringa from ITC for the poster design and production. Let’s make the world a better place with maps!

Menno-Jan Kraak
– President of the International Cartographic Association

Category: Art and Cartography, Cartography and Children, Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization, Commission News, Education and Training, General News, Generalisation and Multiple Representation, Geospatial Analysis and Modeling, GI for Sustainability, Location Based Services, Map Design, Map Production and Geoinformation Management, Map Projections, Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People, Mountain Cartography, Open Source Geospatial Technologies, Planetary Cartography, President's Blog, SDI and Standards, Topographic Mapping, User Experience
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Joint ICA meeting in Vienna, November 8–9

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All chairs and vice-chairs of the ICA commissions and working groups were invited to join an ICA meeting in Vienna on 8–9 November 2015 to plan and discuss their activities for the term 2015–2019. 46 chairs, vice-chairs and members of the executive committee followed the invitation and spent two intensive workshop days at Technische Universität Wien.

Meeting participants

Commission chairs and vice-chairs

Working Group International Map Year

Executive Committee

Website

More photos of the workshop can be found on the ICA Facebook page.

Category: Art and Cartography, Atlases, Cartographic Heritage into the Digital, Cartography and Children, Cartography in Early Warning and Crisis Management, Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization, Commission News, Education and Training, Generalisation and Multiple Representation, Geospatial Analysis and Modeling, GI for Sustainability, History of Cartography, Location Based Services, Map Design, Map Production and Geoinformation Management, Map Projections, Maps and the Internet, Mountain Cartography, Open Source Geospatial Technologies, Planetary Cartography, SDI and Standards, Sensor-driven Mapping, Topographic Mapping, Toponymy, User Experience, Visual Analytics
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Colloque Temps, art & cartographie

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If you are interested in the relationships between Maps, Art and Time (and if you speak French…) this might be a great event to attend: Colloque “Temps, art & cartographie: La sémiologie dans tous les sens”. This colloquy will take at the University of Strasbourg (France) on March 16–18, 2016. Deadline for submitting abstracts: October 31, 2015.

Sébastien Caquard,
ICA Commission on Art & Cartography

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Get to know the new ICA commissions for the term 2015–2019

27 commissions and 3 working groups were elected for the term 2015–2019 by the ICA General Assembly 2015. We are currently in the process of updating the website to reflect these changes. Also some of the commissions are still preparing or updating their websites. In the meantime, we invite you to have a look at the short “Commissions at a glance” presentations, which the new commissions chairs gave during ICC 2015:

Category: Art and Cartography, Atlases, Cartographic Heritage into the Digital, Cartography and Children, Cartography in Early Warning and Crisis Management, Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization, Commission News, Education and Training, Generalisation and Multiple Representation, Geospatial Analysis and Modeling, GI for Sustainability, History of Cartography, Location Based Services, Map Design, Map Production and Geoinformation Management, Map Projections, Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People, Maps and the Internet, Mountain Cartography, Open Source Geospatial Technologies, Planetary Cartography, SDI and Standards, Sensor-driven Mapping, Topographic Mapping, Toponymy, Ubiquitous Mapping, User Experience, Visual Analytics
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Invitation to ICC Workshop MAPPING EPHEMERALITIES / EPHEMERAL CARTOGRAPHIES

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The ICA commissions on Art & Cartography and on Maps and Society are co-organizing a workshop entitled MAPPING EPHEMERALITIES / EPHEMERAL CARTOGRAPHIES in Rio de Janeiro, August 21-22, 2015 (prior to ICC2015). This workshop aims to bring together artists, scholars and students from cartography, geography, the humanities and the arts who are interested in exploring further the relationships between maps and ephemeral dimensions of places.

The deadline to submit proposals for this workshop is December 15, 2014.

Please find more details here:

Category: Art and Cartography, Commission News, Maps and Society
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“MDMD Mapping Fiction” — A Swiss cartomentary

“MDMD – Mapping Fiction” is an experimental short-film on cartography supported by the commission on Art & Cartography. The project is a mockumentary suggesting a secret research in the dark dungeons of ETH Zurich. One of Switzerlands most important cartographers, Prof Ed Imhof went out for an expedition into the Peruvian Andes, to measure some mountains. However, during his excursion an event unforeseen must have occurred and he started to question the role of cartography for the people…

To learn more about this amazing cartographic story, check out the project website at http://www.100-days.net/en/projekt/mdmd-mapping-fiction/project.

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Cartographier les récits : enjeux méthodologiques et technologiques

The Art and Cartography Commission is organizing a colloquy (in French) entitled “Cartographier les récits : enjeux méthodologiques et technologiques” (Montréal, May 12–13, 2014). Deadline to submit an abstract (in French) for this event is January 31, 2014. The call for papers, as well as all the details are available at http://artcarto.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/appel-a-communication-cartographie-et-recits-montreal-12-13-mai-2014/

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Commissions at a glance

During ICC 2013 all commission chairs presented their commissions in a speed presentation. You can check out the presentation slides below (or via our ICC 2013 sub-page).

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