August 2025 Counter-Mapping Challenge
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?
Find below the counter-map contributions by port city territory frequenters from all over the world!
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
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.
Port City Videos
Port City Territories & Health:
Trailer "Hamburg - Green and Blue"
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!
Upload your audio files in the folder below, send us your song recommendations and follow Port City Sounds on Spotify.
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.
