Cultures of cartography: towards a new research agenda

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This workshop is designed to bring practitioners and researchers together to identify and explore common interests in cartographic research related to contemporary map design. The session will focus on cultural aspects of map production and user groups. It is hoped that the session will lead to some interesting new directions in map research with real long-term benefits for the profession. The first half of the workshop (c.60mins, followed by a short break) will involve several interactive exercises interspersed with short talks which will explore issues such as cultural/national differences in map style, and differences map use and perception across diverse cultural and social groups. Can we, for example, learn from alternative mappings? Is Common Ground Parish Maps Project simply a middle-class reworking of the rural idyll, of do these maps offer a different approach to mapping a genuinely held and communal ‘sense of place’? Do artist working in areas such as ‘smell maps’ have a c

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