26-29.05 ’23
Workshop Subjective Atlas of Bosnia & Herzegovina
🕐 26 - 29 May 2023, 10am—5pm
📍 PCRC, Sarajevo (BiH)
🔗 p-crc.org
🙏🏻 PCRC team, James Riding
What is your lived experience of Bosnia and Herzegovina? And how would you map that? This workshop questions the very act of cartography and aims for more multi-vocal and pluri-diverse representations of a place.
During a two-day collaborative process we aim to map the region from the perspective of the participants of the workshop. From their habits to daily routes, from mobility to social fabrics; from beauty to fears; what are the issues at stake and which perspectives need more attention?
This collaborative project in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) combines participatory action research with arts- based methods in the geo-humanities to implement, analyze and assess co-existence and reconciliation efforts in a deeply divided society. The programme offers a critical and joyful context for reflecting on and experimenting with forms of counter-mapping, non- linear storytelling and different methods of bringing a place in perspective. Sessions (in English language) will take place at PCRC’s Office (Pruščakova 21, Sarajevo) on May 26 and 27 (10 AM – 5 PM) during which we will capture social and urban phenomena, draw maps and design alternative flags. With all contributions together, the Subjective Atlas will be published in 2024 by Subjective Editions and PCRC and distributed locally and internationally.
Charting Your Way Home: Youth Map their Bosnian Landscape for Subjective Atlas’ Latest Edition
By Annabelle Werner | Theresa Rauch, Balkan Diskurs, July 6th, 2023
For some, maps serve as a streamlined tool to help one get from point A to point B. But for the team of the Subjective Atlas project, the act of cartography itself represents a complex journey informed by politics, history, and the personal relationships we have to the landscape in which our lives unfold.
For five days, local and international youth in Sarajevo have had the chance to explore the world of cartography and artistic expression by mapping their own lived experiences in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC) has dedicated resources to host the Brussels-based Subjective Atlas project, for which participants were to critically engage with their personal and geographical surroundings by mapping an Atlas of BiH. Read more.
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PCRC & Subjective Editions, 2025
Bosnian-English, 192 full-colour pages, 16.5 x 22 cm
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The Subjective Atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina brings together over eighty personal mappings from people living in a country long defined by outsiders—reduced to entities, ethnic categories, and wartime narratives. This atlas counters such simplifications with a polyphonic cartography: visual stories that show how people inhabit, remember, and imagine this place today.
Created through participatory workshops across Bosnia and Herzegovina, the contributions use drawing, collage, and photography to create alternative mappings of a conflict affected state. Rather than offering a fixed or objective account, these situated mappings aim to feel the country—through the materialities of war-damaged buildings, the taste of homemade juices, and the joy of small acts of kindness.
In a landscape where trauma lingers and political inertia persists, this publication opens space for critical imagination. It invites us to see Bosnia and Herzegovina not as divided, but as a layered place of entangled histories and resilient futures—mapped from within.
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ISBN 978-9-46444-802-3
This publication is a result of a collaboration between Subjective Editions, Newcastle University and PCRC
Editor-in-Chief: Annelys de Vet (Subjective Editions)
Editorial support: Sana Gobbeh, Anita Karabašić, Paul Lowe, Tatjana Milovanović, Ivana Perić, Theresa Rauch, James Riding, Velma Šarić, Amina Sejfić
Foreword: Velma Šarić
Introduction: James Riding