25.09 ’26

20 Sept

Participatory mapping as a tool for building justice and social coexistence

🕐 Saturday, September 25, 2026, 11am—4.30 pm
📍CSV offices, via Longuelo 83, 24129 Bergamo 🇮🇹
🔗 dsus.unibg.it/
🙏🏻 Prof.ssa Chiara Brambilla

CSV: The designer and researcher Annelys De Vet, an expert in participatory mapping and founder of the editorial project Subjective Editions — dedicated to publishing participatory maps created in collaboration with local communities in different parts of the world — will present her work and the methodology she uses.

She will then lead a workshop for the organisations of the Forum, during which participants will be engaged in a participatory mapping activity aimed at reflecting on the themes of justice and social coexistence.

(Annelys de Vet co-founded the “design label" Disarming Design from Palestine in 2012, in collaboration with the International Academy of Art Palestine.)

Organisers: Department of Human and Social Sciences and the Volunteer Service Centre (CSV) of Bergamo

Format: Talk + participatory workshop

Venue: CSV offices, via Longuelo 83, 24129 Bergamo

In charge: Annelys De Vet, independent designer and researcher – Founding Director, Subjective Editions; Prof.ssa Chiara Brambilla, University of Bergamo

Event open to: Organisations participating in the Forum, third-sector organisations, associations, and social work practitioners.

Presentation ‘Subjective Mapping’, Wednesday, November 5, 2025, John Cabot University, Rome

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Workshop, Bergamo 🇮🇹

25.09 ’26

Workshop, Bergamo 🇮🇹

Participatory mapping as a tool for building justice and social coexistence

Workshop, Bergamo 🇮🇹

Booklaunch, Groningen 🇳🇱

07.06 ’26

Booklaunch, Groningen 🇳🇱

Booklaunch Subjective Atlas of Groningen

Booklaunch, Groningen 🇳🇱

BusTour, Groningen 🇳🇱

06.06 ’26

BusTour, Groningen 🇳🇱

Bus Tour Subjective Atlas of Groningen

BusTour, Groningen 🇳🇱

Exhibition, Brussels 🇧🇪

23-24.05 ’26

Exhibition, Brussels 🇧🇪

Entre les lignes

Exhibition, Brussels 🇧🇪

Bookfair, Amsterdam 🇳🇱

23.05 ’26

Bookfair, Amsterdam 🇳🇱

Framer Framed Book Fair

Bookfair, Amsterdam 🇳🇱

Workshop, Oxford 🇬🇧

08.05 ’26

Workshop, Oxford 🇬🇧

Ukranian cartographies

Workshop, Oxford 🇬🇧

Exhibition, Sarajevo 🇧🇦

01-08.04 ’26

Exhibition, Sarajevo 🇧🇦

Exhibition Subjective Atlas of Bosnia & Herzegovina

Exhibition, Sarajevo 🇧🇦

Presentation, Groningen 🇳🇱

21.12 ’25

Presentation, Groningen 🇳🇱

Developing the Subjective Atlas of Groningen

Presentation, Groningen 🇳🇱

Exhibition, Sarajevo 🇧🇦

08-13.12 ’25

Exhibition, Sarajevo 🇧🇦

Exhibition Subjective Atlas of Bosnia & Herzegovina

Exhibition, Sarajevo 🇧🇦

Booklaunch, Sarajevo 🇧🇦

03.12 ’25

Booklaunch, Sarajevo 🇧🇦

Booklaunch Subjective Atlas of Bosnia & Herzegovina

Booklaunch, Sarajevo 🇧🇦

Workshop, Groningen 🇳🇱

29.11 ’25

Workshop, Groningen 🇳🇱

Developing the Subjective Atlas of Groningen

Workshop, Groningen 🇳🇱

16.11 ’25

Workshop, Groningen 🇳🇱

Developing the Subjective Atlas of Groningen

Workshop, Groningen 🇳🇱

12–28.11 ’25

Workshop, Groningen 🇳🇱

Design your own flag for Groningen

Workshop, Groningen 🇳🇱

Lecture, Rome 🇮🇹

05.11 ’25

Lecture, Rome 🇮🇹

Subjective Mapping: A Methodology of Participative Cartography

Lecture, Rome 🇮🇹

Workshop, Lubumbashi 🇨🇩

29.10 ’25

Workshop, Lubumbashi 🇨🇩

Workshop Subjective Atlas of Lubumbashi

Workshop, Lubumbashi 🇨🇩

Workshop, Delfzijl 🇳🇱

17.10 ’25

Workshop, Delfzijl 🇳🇱

Where is the Dutch border?

Workshop, Delfzijl 🇳🇱

Exhibition, Brussels 🇧🇪

09-17.10 ’25

Exhibition, Brussels 🇧🇪

Bruxelles, Diversité & Inclusion

Exhibition, Brussels 🇧🇪

Bookfair, Brussels 🇧🇪

04-05.10 ’25

Bookfair, Brussels 🇧🇪

WIELS Art Book Fair 2025

Bookfair, Brussels 🇧🇪

Workshop, Delfzijl 🇳🇱

26.09 ’25

Workshop, Delfzijl 🇳🇱

Developing the Subjective Atlas of Groningen

Workshop, Delfzijl 🇳🇱

Workshop, Bukidnon 🇵🇭

25-27.08 ’25

Workshop, Bukidnon 🇵🇭

Subjective Atlas of the Philippines

Workshop, Bukidnon 🇵🇭

Workshop, Lubumbashi 🇨🇩

14.08 ’25

Workshop, Lubumbashi 🇨🇩

Workshop Subjective Atlas of Lubumbashi

Workshop, Lubumbashi 🇨🇩

Workshop, Amsterdam 🇳🇱

24.06 ’25

Workshop, Amsterdam 🇳🇱

Where is the Dutch border?

Workshop, Amsterdam 🇳🇱

Workshop, Lubumbashi 🇨🇩

29.05 ’25

Workshop, Lubumbashi 🇨🇩

Workshop Subjective Atlas of Lubumbashi

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Workshop, Manilla 🇵🇭

29.05 ’25

Workshop, Manilla 🇵🇭

Subjective Atlas of the Philippines

Workshop, Manilla 🇵🇭

Workshop, Zambales 🇵🇭

27.05 ’25

Workshop, Zambales 🇵🇭

Subjective Atlas of the Philippines

Workshop, Zambales 🇵🇭

26.05 ’25

Workshop, Zambales 🇵🇭

Subjective Atlas of the Philippines

Workshop, Zambales 🇵🇭

Workshop, Bacolod 🇵🇭

24.05 ’25

Workshop, Bacolod 🇵🇭

Subjective Atlas of the Philippines

Workshop, Bacolod 🇵🇭

Workshop, Manilla 🇵🇭

21.05 ’25

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21.05 – 25.06 ’25

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Workshop, Oudeschip 🇳🇱

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workshopBergamo

Subjective Editions

8 Subjective Editions

€170.00 €196.00

Subjective Editions
Multilingual-English, 8 full-colour books, 16.5 x 22 cm
Subjective Atlas of Amsterdam, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brussels, Groningen, Kaunas, Luxembourg, Palestine and Pakistan

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The Subjective Editions series brings together eight Atlases from different parts of the world, each rooted in specific communities, collective and personal perspectives, and lived experiences. While grounded in their own contexts, together they create a layered and polyphonic mapping of visual narratives, revealing the many ways people relate to, remember, and imagine the places they inhabit and call home.
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Each book has been initiated by a different organisation, emerging from a distinct context and driven by its own concerns and objectives. Yet all of them challenge dominant representations and simplified imaginaries imposed by outsiders by mapping places from the inside out.

As a continually expanding archive of knowledge and creative practice, the complementary collection serves as an example of how inspiration, dialogue, and initiatives can be activated, opening up new possibilities for exchange, collaboration, and action. A series that cannot be missed in creative libraries.

Subjective Atlas of Groningen

€24.50

ARTisBOOK & Subjective Editions, 2026
Dutch-English, 192 full-colour pages, 16.5 x 22 cm

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The Subjective Atlas of Groningen brings together a diverse group of Groningers mapping the province and what it means to be “at home,” in order to share and make visible the personal, but often invisible, experiences of various resident groups in Groningen.

Created through participatory workshops and public activities—including exhibitions, events, and participatory sessions across the province—the project invites local communities to share their stories, becoming visible both physically and online. In seven workshops organized by the partner organizations, approximately 80 participants explored their vision of “being at home” in Groningen. Through creative sessions, they reflected on personal themes and developed visual contributions, fostering interaction and providing space for diverse perspectives and stories.

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ISBN 978-9-46-444803-0
This publication is a result of collaboration between Subjective Editions and ARTisBOOK

Editor-in-chief: Annelys de Vet
Research, development and editing: Pieter Augustijn, Ruby de Vos, Jedidja Smalbil
Preface: Pieter Augustijn, Ruby de Vos
Introduction: Wilbert van de Kamp

Subjective Atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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

Subjective Atlas of Palestine

010 Publishers, 2007 & Subjective Editions (re-print), 2024
English, 160 full-colour pages, 16.5 x 22 cm

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Sublime landscapes, tranquil urban scenes, frolicking children; who would associate these images with Palestine? All too often the Western media show the country’s gloomy side, and Palestinians as aggressors. It is this that makes identifying with them virtually impossible. If we are to relate to the Palestinians other images are needed, images seen from a cultural and more human vantage point.

Palestinian artists, photographers and designers have mapped their country as they see it. Given their closeness to the subject, this has resulted in unconventional, very human impressions of the landscape and the architecture, the cuisine, the music and the poetry of thought and expression. The drawings, maps and photographs reveal individual life experiences. The contributions give an entirely different angle on a nation in occupied territory. In this subjective atlas it is the Palestinians themselves who show the disarming reverse side of the black-and-white image generally resorted to by the media.

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ISBN 978-906-450-648-2
EDITOR: Annelys de Vet
CURATOR: Khaled Hourani (International Academy of Arts Palestine)
CONTRIBUTORS: Sameh Abboushi, Majd Abdel Hamid, Senan Abdelqader, Mohammed Amous, Tayseer Barakat, Sami Bandak, Baha Boukhari, Mahmoud Darwish (poem), Reem Fadda, Shadi Habib Allah, Majdi Hadid, Shuruq Harb, Dima Hourani, Khaled Hourani Munther Jaber, Khaled Jarrar, Abed Al Jubeh, Hassan Khader (foreword), Yazan Khalili, Suleiman Mansour, Basel Al Maqousi, Sani P. Meo, Inas Moussa, Hafez Omar, Hosni Radwan, Awatef Rumiyah, Ahmad Saleem, Shareef Sarhan, Majed Shala, Sami Shana’ah, Maissoon Sharkawi, Mamoun Shrietch, Lena Sobeh, Mohanad Yaqubi, Inass Yassin