Learning and teaching with outdoor cartographic displays: a visual approach

This article examines the intersection of visual studies and map studies within the academic didactics of cultural geography. In particular, it suggests that the practice of photographing outdoor cartographic signs emerging from the ordinary urbanscape might provide teachers with a playful way to introduce their students to theoretical speculation on the ontology and the practice of maps. Photographic portraits of public maps stationed in specific contexts could also be used to teach about cultural and social representations of places and landscapes.