Expanded Mapping: Cartography, Relation, and the Transformation of Space

Translation of the article "Mapeamento Expandido" https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15418692

This article proposes the concept of Expanded Mapping as a critical, situated, and projective cartographic practice. Drawing from interdisciplinary debates in spatial theory, political ecology, and artistic research, it reconfigures mapping not as a technique of representation but as a relational act of world-making. Each chapter addresses a distinct dimension of this expanded practice — from epistemological positioning to poetic expression, spatial emancipation, ecological attention, and projective transformation. Mapping is thus understood as a form of situated inscription, where the line no longer reflects a given space but actively configures relations between bodies, matter, and temporalities. The expanded map becomes a practice of listening and co-presence, offering not an image of the world, but a field through which the world is reconfigured.