Free the Map - Henk van Houtum furniture design Masahisa Fukase

Masahisa Fukase

Across a variegated set of curatorial and editorial instantiations

a world where change is natural and healthy

Bächer called for an ideology-free culture of discourse

one that raises profound questions about the very definitions of human intelligence and morality

Free the Map - Henk van Houtum furniture design Masahisa FukaseA 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.