Past event The second edition of Off the Map in The Hague With music from the choir Slavuj singing songs from the Balkan and the Black Sea area, where borders still scar the surface and Dutch-Kurdish filmmaker Reber Dosky about his work in Kurdistan. Of course also with graphic designer Floor Koomen with a talk about the United Koreans, a quiz by Suzanne Hendriks and moderation by Jorie Horsthuis. Suzanne Hendriks | 14 May 2025 Africa Asia Europe Middle East Stamps Maps Music Film design Politics news Analysis Gulf of Whatnow? Map lines are inherently political. After all, they’re representations of the places that are important to human beings — and those priorities can be delicate and contentious, even more so in a globalized world where multiple nations often share the same maps. Trump’s geographic renaming plans leave mapmakers pondering what to do next. AP | 23 Jan 2025 Americas Politics Maps Analysis Spratly Islands Why the Philippines made a dramatic turnaround on the question of archipelagos in the law of the sea And strangely enough, it means China and the Philippines have traded positions. The Lowy Institute | 19 Nov 2024 Asia South China Sea Maps News Puntland Somalia’s federal map sparks rift with Puntland and Hirshabelle over disputed territories A map unveiled by Somalia’s federal government during a recent ceremony in Mogadishu has sparked a backlash from Puntland and Hirshabelle, two key federal states. Hiiraan Online | 29 Oct 2024 Africa Maps Past event De Facto Live On Tour #4 The evening was filled with islands, imaginary countries and music from areas where the borders never really consolidated. With Adwin de Kluyver, Nelis Smouter and Balkan choir Slavuj. Graphic designer Floor Koomen about Cabinda and a quiz by Suzanne Hendriks. Moderation: Jorie Horsthuis. Suzanne Hendriks | 18 Oct 2024 Europe Africa World Asia Politics Music Maps Stamps Past event De Facto Live On Tour #3 With Ukrainian musician Oleg Lysenko, Elten-born Wim Tjerkstra on post-war border corrections and professor Henk van Houtum about why we should change our maps and atlases. Of course also with graphic designer Floor Koomen with a talk about stamps, a quiz by Suzanne Hendriks and moderation by Jorie Horsthuis. Suzanne Hendriks | 3 Jun 2024 Europe Africa Asia South China Sea Politics Music Maps Stamps Past event De Facto Live #9 With maplover Martijn Storms, artist Anika Franke and documentary makers Kevin Kraan and Pieter Symon. As always also with graphic designer Floor Koomen, moderation by Jorie Horsthuis and quiz by Suzanne Hendriks. Photography by Jerney Hakkenberg. | 14 May 2024 Europe Middle East Africa Asia Stamps Maps History Sports Past event De Facto Live On Tour #2 With musician Emrah Oguztürk, writer Philip Dröge and photographer Michael Rhebergen. Graphic designer Floor Koomen about a flag and a quiz by Suzanne Hendriks. Moderation: Jorie Horsthuis De Facto | 13 Apr 2024 Europe Asia Politics Music Maps Analysis Ukraine in historical maps The war against Ukraine did not start in February 2022, but in the spring of 2014. And the root of the invasions goes back in time even more, as they were a delayed response to the collapse of the Soviet Union and earlier territorial claims. The online exhibition Borderlands - Ukraine in Historical Maps - with numerous maps and short commentaries, aims to shed some light on the historical backgrounds of the present war of Russia against Ukraine. It was curated by historian Harrie Teunissen and map curator Martijn Storms. University Leiden | 11 Apr 2024 Europe Maps History Book of the week Free the Map Map attack! In Free the Map, a new publication by Henk van Houtum, traditional maps are challenged and new cartographic stories and representations are discussed and encouraged. A must for our readership. Suzanne Hendriks | 12 Mar 2024 Maps Books Design Politics History Past event De Facto Live On Tour #1 With pianist and Soviet-expert Sara Crombach, journalist Milo van Bokkum and illustrator Jasper Rietman. Graphic designer Floor Koomen about stamps and quiz by Suzanne Hendriks. Moderation: Jorie Horsthuis De Facto | 17 Jan 2024 Caucasus Europe Asia Politics Stamps Maps Music Tip of the week Mapping Modernity Mapping Modernity is an exhibition at the Design Museum in Den Bosch (The Netherlands). It has been compiled of 250 maps, so make sure you eat a ‘Bossche bol’ beforehand and take your time to visit this exhibition and take in all the depictions of power and control the maps display. Suzanne Hendriks | 11 Jan 2024 Maps Design Politics History 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 News Ukraine's Euro 2020 football kit provokes outrage in Russia A new kit for Ukraine’s football team, showing a map including Russian-annexed Crimea, has provoked anger in Moscow. BBC | 7 Jun 2021 Sports 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 The second edition of Off the Map in The Hague With music from the choir Slavuj singing songs from the Balkan and the Black Sea area, where borders still scar the surface and Dutch-Kurdish filmmaker Reber Dosky about his work in Kurdistan. Of course also with graphic designer Floor Koomen with a talk about the United Koreans, a quiz by Suzanne Hendriks and moderation by Jorie Horsthuis. Suzanne Hendriks | 14 May 2025 Africa Asia Europe Middle East Stamps Maps Music Film design Politics news
Analysis Gulf of Whatnow? Map lines are inherently political. After all, they’re representations of the places that are important to human beings — and those priorities can be delicate and contentious, even more so in a globalized world where multiple nations often share the same maps. Trump’s geographic renaming plans leave mapmakers pondering what to do next. AP | 23 Jan 2025 Americas Politics Maps
Analysis Spratly Islands Why the Philippines made a dramatic turnaround on the question of archipelagos in the law of the sea And strangely enough, it means China and the Philippines have traded positions. The Lowy Institute | 19 Nov 2024 Asia South China Sea Maps
News Puntland Somalia’s federal map sparks rift with Puntland and Hirshabelle over disputed territories A map unveiled by Somalia’s federal government during a recent ceremony in Mogadishu has sparked a backlash from Puntland and Hirshabelle, two key federal states. Hiiraan Online | 29 Oct 2024 Africa Maps
Past event De Facto Live On Tour #4 The evening was filled with islands, imaginary countries and music from areas where the borders never really consolidated. With Adwin de Kluyver, Nelis Smouter and Balkan choir Slavuj. Graphic designer Floor Koomen about Cabinda and a quiz by Suzanne Hendriks. Moderation: Jorie Horsthuis. Suzanne Hendriks | 18 Oct 2024 Europe Africa World Asia Politics Music Maps Stamps
Past event De Facto Live On Tour #3 With Ukrainian musician Oleg Lysenko, Elten-born Wim Tjerkstra on post-war border corrections and professor Henk van Houtum about why we should change our maps and atlases. Of course also with graphic designer Floor Koomen with a talk about stamps, a quiz by Suzanne Hendriks and moderation by Jorie Horsthuis. Suzanne Hendriks | 3 Jun 2024 Europe Africa Asia South China Sea Politics Music Maps Stamps
Past event De Facto Live #9 With maplover Martijn Storms, artist Anika Franke and documentary makers Kevin Kraan and Pieter Symon. As always also with graphic designer Floor Koomen, moderation by Jorie Horsthuis and quiz by Suzanne Hendriks. Photography by Jerney Hakkenberg. | 14 May 2024 Europe Middle East Africa Asia Stamps Maps History Sports
Past event De Facto Live On Tour #2 With musician Emrah Oguztürk, writer Philip Dröge and photographer Michael Rhebergen. Graphic designer Floor Koomen about a flag and a quiz by Suzanne Hendriks. Moderation: Jorie Horsthuis De Facto | 13 Apr 2024 Europe Asia Politics Music Maps
Analysis Ukraine in historical maps The war against Ukraine did not start in February 2022, but in the spring of 2014. And the root of the invasions goes back in time even more, as they were a delayed response to the collapse of the Soviet Union and earlier territorial claims. The online exhibition Borderlands - Ukraine in Historical Maps - with numerous maps and short commentaries, aims to shed some light on the historical backgrounds of the present war of Russia against Ukraine. It was curated by historian Harrie Teunissen and map curator Martijn Storms. University Leiden | 11 Apr 2024 Europe Maps History
Book of the week Free the Map Map attack! In Free the Map, a new publication by Henk van Houtum, traditional maps are challenged and new cartographic stories and representations are discussed and encouraged. A must for our readership. Suzanne Hendriks | 12 Mar 2024 Maps Books Design Politics History
Past event De Facto Live On Tour #1 With pianist and Soviet-expert Sara Crombach, journalist Milo van Bokkum and illustrator Jasper Rietman. Graphic designer Floor Koomen about stamps and quiz by Suzanne Hendriks. Moderation: Jorie Horsthuis De Facto | 17 Jan 2024 Caucasus Europe Asia Politics Stamps Maps Music
Tip of the week Mapping Modernity Mapping Modernity is an exhibition at the Design Museum in Den Bosch (The Netherlands). It has been compiled of 250 maps, so make sure you eat a ‘Bossche bol’ beforehand and take your time to visit this exhibition and take in all the depictions of power and control the maps display. Suzanne Hendriks | 11 Jan 2024 Maps Design Politics History
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
News Ukraine's Euro 2020 football kit provokes outrage in Russia A new kit for Ukraine’s football team, showing a map including Russian-annexed Crimea, has provoked anger in Moscow. BBC | 7 Jun 2021 Sports 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
