WGIC Bussiness meeting ICC 2025
The business meeting of our Working Group was held on Thursday, 21 August, during the lunch break
The business meeting of our Working Group was held on Thursday, 21 August, during the lunch break
Our World Blindness Summit has the central purpose of promoting inclusion, equality, autonomy and empowerment of people with visual impairment on a global scale. The event brings together experts, organizations and visual impairment leaders to discuss and propose solutions that aim to improve the quality of life of this population.
In the first of a series of bi-monthly seminars hosted by the International Cartographic Association’s Inclusive Cartography Working Group, Vincent and Jakub will shortly introduce the aim, activities and achievements of the Working Group. One of the recent achievements of the group is the publication Tactile Mapping - cartography for people with visual impairments -...
The Second Tactile Cartography Colloquium (Cartotatil) will take place in December 2025 in Florianópolis, Brazil. The event is scheduled to be hosted in Portuguese. For more information follow the Instagram handle @cartotatil.
Seminar 2, Inclusive Cartography Seminar Series, 11 December 3 PM CET, link: https://meet.google.com/dvj-qsqu-cbm
Maps shape how movement is imagined, organized, and governed. Yet many contemporary maps still assume a non-disabled default user, privileging speed, efficiency, and route optimization while overlooking the barriers, detours, and everyday negotiations that structure mobility for many disabled people. Framed through the concept of accessible mobilities, this talk reflects on the cartographic consequences of...
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