Believing that strong protection for global biodiversity requires renewed relationships and imaginaries of European territories, this project challenges assumptions of what spatial representation is or can be, and aims at leading and changing the structure of how we think about European territory and landscape. The proposal recognizes that under the EU Biodiversity Strategy and EU Restoration Law, each member state will have to produce new maps referencing the areas to be restored, including within their Natura 2000 sites.

The work will draw special interest in the involvement of the public within these processes and proposes a NaturArchy Mapping Framework. This will be a counter-cartography, a polyvocal and multidimensional cartographic method that includes both material and immaterial culture, a citizenry of people and place, and is non-linear, multimedial, and breaks with the tradition of positivist law, instead embracing more-than-human legal plurality.

This is a multi year project with seed funding from the EU's JRC and has begun investigations in Sept 2024 and will continue through 2025.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38297