Cartography has been a key tool for the studio of the cities along human history. Mapping Valencia is an opportunity to rethink the city. Its attention is drawn in the map as a physical object, but also to mapping as an action, as an active form of the environment knowledge. Mapping Valencia establishes a game with time and space selecting some of the most important historic maps of Valencia and, at the same time, producing new cartographic experiences developed from the current artistic practice.

It does exist a material, a physic, and objective city, but also an immaterial, subjective and unfinished one, that is the result of the perception of its inhabitants and visitors: the lived city. Thus, there are lots of Valencias, not only one. The reality of a city is extremely polyhedric . That is why we need new glances that should not be closed . What we need are proposals or maps-essay. That is what Mau Monleón, Pedro Ortuño and Kaoru Katayama have made for Mapping Valencia. Three essays, created after an investigation, about the city taking into account their own subjectivities and creativities.

Kaoru Katayama
Los mapas de Toshi
2007

Mau Monleón
Contra-geografías humanas
2007

Pedro Ortuño
Testimonio de un des/n/tierro
2007