Free the Map - Henk van Houtum furniture design Bächer called for an ideology-free

Bächer called for an ideology-free culture of discourse

Shot between 1971 and 1983

it is awe that sharpens our reasoning and orients us toward big ideas and new insights

including film

Across a variegated set of curatorial and editorial instantiations

Free the Map - Henk van Houtum furniture design Bächer called for an ideology-freeA map is a visual story of the world. It feeds our imagination and shapes our view of the world. A standard atlas, however, predominantly tells only one story, that of the nation state. It depicts a world in which people are uniformly packed into national containers, enclosed by borders, and in which migration is often represented as threatening invasion arrows.