On 23 and 24 April 2009, a conference themed ‘Conference on Cartographic Challenges: movement, participation, risk' will be organised in Bergamo (Italy). The conference is an opportunity of encounter among researchers interested in sharing two levels of considerations about cartography: the epistemic one, concerning the communicative role it is playing actually; the empiric one, regarding the production of maps, able to face globalisation challenges. About the empistemic role, assuming that the information technologies and the world wide web have undermined the elaboration and the basic assumptions of the map, it comes out the need to wonder whether we...
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