Past event De Facto Live #7 ‘Nature Calling’. With journalist Milo van Bokkum about nature & borders, artist Esther Kokmeijer about Antarctica and activist Raki Ap about West Papua. Introduction by graphic designer Floor Koomen, quiz by Suzanne Hendriks. Moderation: Jorie Horsthuis De Facto | 20 Sep 2023 Polar region Europe Pacific Asia Caucasus Maps Art Music Family Politics History Photography Climate Nature News Paracel Islands Studio defends Barbie movie after controversial map prompts Vietnam ban Warner Bros says map is ‘child-like’ after Vietnam accused film-makers of depicting China’s nine-dash line in South China Sea. The Guardian | 7 Jul 2023 South China Sea Asia Film Maps Past event De Facto Live #6 ‘This Land is My Land’. With filmmaker Reber Dosky about Kurdistan, designer Inna Kochkina about the cyrillic script, graphic designer Floor Koomen and musician Dusty Stray about the Black Hills and a quiz by Suzanne Hendriks. Moderation: Jorie Horsthuis. De Facto | 28 Jun 2023 Americas Europe Middle East Asia Maps Stamps Art Design Film Music Politics Analysis Falkland Islands Falklands’ War Mapping Project expected to begin this month at Mount Tumbledown Waterloo Uncovered, the groundbreaking charity that combines archaeology with veteran care and recovery, will be visiting the Falkland Islands this month to begin the first intensive archaeological survey of its battlefields. MercoPress | 24 Mar 2022 Americas Maps History Review Fortuitous Lines Borders create paradoxes: when you cross them, everything changes but much stays the same. In Borderlands, Dutch journalist Milo van Bokkum describes this paradox and the way locals deal with the complexities caused by these often arbitrarily drawn lines. Jorie Horsthuis | 20 Mar 2022 Europe Asia Africa Books Politics History Maps Analysis Western Sahara The Western Sahara Issue Is Souring Morocco’s Relations With Europe Maps have long played a crucial, symbolic role in the dispute over the Western Sahara. For years, because most world maps available elsewhere show the international border that separates Morocco from its coveted territory to the south, those that were sold in Morocco had to be separately manufactured for the domestic market, affecting everything from globes and atlases to toy puzzles and address books. WORLD POLITICS REVIEW | 13 Jan 2022 Africa Maps Analysis Transnistria A Hammer, Sickle and a Red Square As of this year, the Dnister Moldavian Republic, aka Transnistria, has existed for thirty years. In 2000, four stamps were issued to celebrate its ten year anniversary, with plenty of references to a Soviet past. Floor Koomen | 23 Dec 2020 Europe Stamps Maps Politics Design Past event De Facto Live #2 With multimedia journalist Pierre Crom about the Donbas, political analyst Wladimir van Wilgenburg about Kurdistan, designer Irene Stracuzzi about the Arctic and graphic designer Floor Koomen about the South China Sea. Moderation: Jorie Horsthuis. De Facto | 22 Jan 2020 Europe Middle East South China Sea Polar region Photography Maps Art Nature Politics
Past event De Facto Live #7 ‘Nature Calling’. With journalist Milo van Bokkum about nature & borders, artist Esther Kokmeijer about Antarctica and activist Raki Ap about West Papua. Introduction by graphic designer Floor Koomen, quiz by Suzanne Hendriks. Moderation: Jorie Horsthuis De Facto | 20 Sep 2023 Polar region Europe Pacific Asia Caucasus Maps Art Music Family Politics History Photography Climate Nature
News Paracel Islands Studio defends Barbie movie after controversial map prompts Vietnam ban Warner Bros says map is ‘child-like’ after Vietnam accused film-makers of depicting China’s nine-dash line in South China Sea. The Guardian | 7 Jul 2023 South China Sea Asia Film Maps
Past event De Facto Live #6 ‘This Land is My Land’. With filmmaker Reber Dosky about Kurdistan, designer Inna Kochkina about the cyrillic script, graphic designer Floor Koomen and musician Dusty Stray about the Black Hills and a quiz by Suzanne Hendriks. Moderation: Jorie Horsthuis. De Facto | 28 Jun 2023 Americas Europe Middle East Asia Maps Stamps Art Design Film Music Politics
Analysis Falkland Islands Falklands’ War Mapping Project expected to begin this month at Mount Tumbledown Waterloo Uncovered, the groundbreaking charity that combines archaeology with veteran care and recovery, will be visiting the Falkland Islands this month to begin the first intensive archaeological survey of its battlefields. MercoPress | 24 Mar 2022 Americas Maps History
Review Fortuitous Lines Borders create paradoxes: when you cross them, everything changes but much stays the same. In Borderlands, Dutch journalist Milo van Bokkum describes this paradox and the way locals deal with the complexities caused by these often arbitrarily drawn lines. Jorie Horsthuis | 20 Mar 2022 Europe Asia Africa Books Politics History Maps
Analysis Western Sahara The Western Sahara Issue Is Souring Morocco’s Relations With Europe Maps have long played a crucial, symbolic role in the dispute over the Western Sahara. For years, because most world maps available elsewhere show the international border that separates Morocco from its coveted territory to the south, those that were sold in Morocco had to be separately manufactured for the domestic market, affecting everything from globes and atlases to toy puzzles and address books. WORLD POLITICS REVIEW | 13 Jan 2022 Africa Maps
Analysis Transnistria A Hammer, Sickle and a Red Square As of this year, the Dnister Moldavian Republic, aka Transnistria, has existed for thirty years. In 2000, four stamps were issued to celebrate its ten year anniversary, with plenty of references to a Soviet past. Floor Koomen | 23 Dec 2020 Europe Stamps Maps Politics Design
Past event De Facto Live #2 With multimedia journalist Pierre Crom about the Donbas, political analyst Wladimir van Wilgenburg about Kurdistan, designer Irene Stracuzzi about the Arctic and graphic designer Floor Koomen about the South China Sea. Moderation: Jorie Horsthuis. De Facto | 22 Jan 2020 Europe Middle East South China Sea Polar region Photography Maps Art Nature Politics
