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Mapping

PACT explores the port city territory as a distinct space by utilizing different mapping theories and techniques to understand its significance for various stakeholders.

Videos & Audio

Watch our videos about exciting changes and innovative approaches to pressing challenges happening in port city territories.

Listen to our different attempts to capture the sounds and voices of PACT COST Action's case studies and to our podcast episode about building an inclusive glossary of energy transition in port city territories.

Visual Summary Le Havre

August 2025 Counter-Mapping Challenge

Counter-Mapping

Counter-cartography aims to shake up the normative way of mapping and representing our world. For the August challenge, we want to encourage anyone living, working, or simply spending time in port areas to think about how they use and/or see this space.

How do you move through the port city territory? Is it easy? Prohibited? Is it a space you want to explore? Or rather avoid? How would you recreate it if you could? What perspective do you choose? Analytical? Historical? Vacation time curiosity?

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Find below the counter-map contributions by port city territory frequenters from all over the world!

RogerAnis

Visual Documentation:
Mapping Changes in Rotterdam 

Roger Anis is a documentary photographer and visual researcher based in the Netherlands. For PACT Roger ventured out to explore and capture the success stories, as well as challenges, around the hydrogen development in the port of Rotterdam. He plans on using this as a starting point to to tell a visual story of the energy transition taking place in Rotterdam and expanding beyond.

Mapping Lisbon

Mapping Lisbon

One of PACT's six pilots is Lisbon. To become familiar with this port city territory, Pedro Garcia and Matej Zahatnansky prepared spatial visualizations based on their research with key information about the place. 

Videos

Port City Videos

Port City Territories & Health:

Trailer "Hamburg - Green and Blue"​

Soundscape

Port City Soundscape

Send us your port city sounds – be it a song, an audio recording of a ship horn, waves crashing, or a poem, text, ... We would like to know what your port city territory sounds like to you!

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Upload your audio files in the folder below, send us your song recommendations and follow Port City Sounds on Spotify.

Podcast
The words we use: building an inclusive glossary of energy transition in port city territories

How can we create a shared language for energy transition without losing the different perspectives behind the words we use?

In this podcast, members of COST Action PACT’s Working Group 3 reflect on the process of co-producing an inclusive glossary for energy transition in port city territories. Through a World Café, WG3's members explored different meanings, perspectives, tensions, and values behind key terms. We spoke with Silvia Sivo, Maria Elena Buslacchi, Mosé Rossi, Ryan Holmes and Alper Seyham, about what they discovered when they put these words into conversation.

world cloud resulting from the WG3 survey

 

This world cloud is the result of a WG3 survey (2026).

Visual Summary

Visual Summary of
PACT Conference, Le Havre 2025

Guillaume Monnain, AKENIUM, is a graphic facilitation & science communication expert. At the conference and workshop held in September 2025 in Le Havre, France, he captured the essence of PACT's work and summarized the presentations and discussions for us.

About COST Action

COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation.

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This website is based upon work from COST Action CA23138 – Port City Territories in Action: A Collaborative Laboratory for Inclusive Energy Transition (PACT), supported by COST.

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