Bilingual cartography archive

Karten als Speicher von Landschaft und Erinnerung.

Ein ruhiges digitales Archiv über historische Karten, Wege, Grenzräume und kulturelle Orientierungspunkte.

Historical map sheet on a table
Sheet 07 / Bosphorus platePrinted fragments, harbour lines and old cartographic perspective.

Visual atlas

Fragments, movement and field material.

The archive treats maps not only as documents, but as rooms: folded paper, marginal notes, routes, pins, shadows and repeated attempts to orient a place.

Old printed cartographic plate
Historical sheetEngraved city views, harbour lines and traces of printed description.
World map with pins and compass
Marked world mapCoordinates, pins and routes as a practical layer over geographical memory.