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SG - A Counter Cartography of the Future Netherlands
Workshop by Edward Huijbens
This session will playfully engage with the traditions of counter-cartography envisioning the future of the Netherlands. The base for will be a WUR generated map of the Netherlands in 2120. Participants in this workshop will be challenged to make space for alternative visions and ideas in that map.
19:45 to 20:45, 21 May - Impulse
About Edward Huijbens
Edward H. Huijbens (b. 1976), MA, PhD. Edward is an Icelandic geographer, graduate of Durham University in England. He is chair of Wageningen University’s research group in cultural geography. Before assuming this post in 2019 he ran the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre (2006-2015) and later worked as a scholar of tourism, professor and head of department at the school of social sciences and humanities at the University of Akureyri, Iceland (2015-2019). Edward works on tourism and spatial theory, earthly attachments, issues of regional development, landscape perceptions, the role of transport in tourism and polar tourism.
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