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Report on Entangled Cartographies: Mapping the Unmappable in a Digital Age
Report on Entangled Cartographies: Mapping the Unmappable in a Digital Age Reported by Kymbat Altybay, class of 2028 On November 6-7, 2025, the IB Lecture Hall at Duke Kunshan hosted the international conference “Entangled Cartographies.” For two days, a unique group of thinkers gathered to solve an urgent question: how do we chart digital, ecological, […]
Report on “Gathering the Cracks: Poetic Counter-Mapping of Informal Networks in Bacheng”
English and Chinese reported by Zhiyuan Mark Ma, Junyi Yu, Jiaxin Wang On November 6, 2025, the Entangled Cartographies Conference (Track II: Networked Societies), hosted by Prof. Benjamin Bacon, gathered scholars and students to explore the changing landscapes of mapping, networks, and spatial imagination in the digital age. During this panel, DKU students Zhiyuan Mark […]
Entangled Cartographies Conference
I have rivers but no water; forests but no trees; cities but no buildings. What am I? A map. (origins of riddle unknown) In his 1931 paper “A Non-Aristotelian System and Its Necessity for Rigor in Mathematics and Physics”, Polish American scientist and philosopher Alfred Korzybski introduced the now-iconic phrase, “a map is not the […]
