Our group strives to create a safe and welcoming space for the next generation of cartographers to share work, find inspiration, and connect with each other worldwide. We’re so glad you’re here!
We consider early career cartographers to include students in the later stages of their education and early career academics, professionals, and cartography enthusiasts. Not an early career cartographer? More senior scholars and cartographic professionals are most welcome in NGC as advocates for and mentors to the next generation of cartographers.
This website is maintained by the Working Group Next Generation Cartographers of the International Cartographic Association (ICA).
Upcoming events and networking opportunities
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13.12.2024, 06:00AMCST / 1:00PMCET
Online community meet-up on zoom -
20.01.2025, 12:00PMCST / 7:00PMCET
Online community meet-up on zoom
We are currently processing our impressions from hugely successful NGC meet-ups at EuroCarto in Vienna and the Carto-Viz Workshop in Warsaw.
Some of our members will also join AsiaCarto 2024 in Hong Kong (December 8–10, 2024); we look forward to distributing our badges during the event and meeting more Asian next generation cartographers.
The next real-world meeting opportunities for the broader community will probably be at ICC 2025 in Vancouver, CA (August 16–22, 2025).
In the meantime, we frequently organize online meetings and meet-ups. We communicate them on Discord and via our mailing list (see below).
Any ideas, questions, or concerns? – Come and say Hi in our Discord chat!
News & Media
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05.11.2024, 11:15AMCST / 6:15PMCET
Online community meet-up on zoom -
09.–11.09.2024
EuroCarto 2024 (Vienna, Austria) https://eurocarto2024.org/. Besides many talks given by young academics, Next Generation Cartographers was involved in the following activities:-
Next Generation Cartographers Meet-up
Over 60 people attended our EuroCarto NGC meet-up at the bar “Ponint of Sale” in Vienna! -
Panel: Towards an ICA Code of Conduct
Moderation: Chelsea Nestel
NGC members participated as panelists as well as audience members, in a panel discussion that drew a lot of attention. - NGC Reflection on Eurocarto 2024
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Next Generation Cartographers Meet-up
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07.09.2024
Workshop on AI, Geovisualization, and Analytical Reasoning (Warsaw, Poland). Organization: University of Warsaw Department of Geoinformatics, Cartography, and Remote Sensing in collaboration with the International Cartographic Association Commissions on Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization, Geovisualization, and User Experience (UX), as well as NGC. -
20.–23.09.2023
45th Polish National Cartographic Conference (Lublin & Janów Lubelski, Poland), Panel discussion “The future of Polish academic cartography - state and prospects - an attempt at diagnosis” [“Przyszłość polskiej kartografii akademickiej - stan i perspektywy - próba diagnozy”], organisers: Katarzyna Słomska-Przech, Maria Stadnicka, Mateusz Zawadzki. -
13.–18.08.2023
International Cartographic Conference (ICC’23, Cape Town, South Africa): Next Generation Cartographers meeting on Wednesday, 16.8., 12:40 (Session 28F); Paper presentation on the results of the Vienna Workshop and the current state of the initiative on Friday, 18.8., 11:30 (Session 45D). -
19.06.2023
Podcast with NGC member Merve Keskin on map usability and NGC. -
20.09.2022
EuroCarto 2022 (Vienna, Austria) Workshop Next Generation Cartographers: A cartographic colloquium
Workshop Commission: Edyta Paulina Bogucka, Florian Ledermann, Sebastian Meier, Robert Roth, Katarzyna Słomska-Przech
Contact us
- Chelsea Nestel (USA) nestel@wisc.edu
- Katarzyna Słomska-Przech (Poland) kslomska@ihpan.edu.pl
Join the community
Terms of reference
The latest draft of our code of conduct is in effect until consensus on a final version is reached.
The Next Generation Cartographers initiative ( NGC ) aims to support cartographers in the early stages of their career, both in academic and professional contexts. The initiative seeks to provide opportunities and a safe space for mutual support and exchange, and to raise awareness for the needs and demands of next generation cartographers within the field of cartography and its established institutions.
We consider “next generation cartographers” to include students towards the later stages of their education as well as young professionals, early career academics, and map enthusiasts; more senior academics and professionals are also very welcome if they want to promote the interests of the next generation and support them as mentors or advisors.
Details
Goals
- Establish opportunities for the NGC community to meet and share knowledge in a peer-to-peer fashion.
- Support the career development of young professionals in the field and promote the needs and demands of the next generation within cartographic institutions, both on the local and global level.
- Raise awareness towards practices of exclusion, discrimination, and colonialism that have historically shaped our field and its institutions, by promoting critical, feminist, and solidary approaches to cartography and its institutional representation, as formulated by a global community of young scholars and professionals.
- Actively reach out to demographics that are underrepresented in our field and its institutions, both on the local and global level, to join the NGC initiative.
Values
The basis of the group's operation are the values of inclusiveness, diversity, and openness. NGC is a network and a safe space based on mutual trust and respect.
A code of conduct shall be developed that promotes these values and also allows for a wide range of opinions, views, and approaches to have a voice in the conversation.
The initiative is seeking to achieve this vision with the following activities
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Serve as a contact point for next generation cartographers by:
- maintaining the website, mailing list, and other suitable means of communication and knowledge sharing,
- developing resources about the NGC initiative.
- Organize regular NGC online meetings for the exchange of knowledge and networking.
- Organize social events during cartographic conferences to facilitate networking among members of the NGC community.
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Encourage members of NGC community
to take up leading roles in cartography and support their
professional career development by:
- disseminating information about job and professional development opportunities, project funding, etc.,
- promoting the involvement of members of NGC community in decision-making bodies in cartographic organizations (such as International Cartographic Association [ICA] and regional cartographic societies).
- Facilitate establishing mentor-mentee relationships for members of the NGC community between members in more senior positions and emerging professionals.
- Endorse critical approaches in cartography by co-organising events and supporting collaboration to facilitate ideas exchange.
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Cooperate with the cartographic community by:
- promoting the participation of the NGC community in scientific events,
- participating in ICA Commissions’ work.
- engaging in cartographic institutions on the global and regional level and lobbying for the interests of the NGC community within those (e.g. active outreach to young scholars and professionals, lobbying simple and affordable membership for students and early-career cartographers etc.)
- Present issues related to NGC initiative at cartographic conferences and in journals and other media.
- Creating opportunities for collaborations with related disciplines (e.g., computer science, IT, engineering) - extending our network in a transdisciplinary manner
Participation
- Everyone interested in Cartography and considers themselves a young/emerging professional or wants to support this community in a mentoring role is eligible to participate in the NGC community.
- Participation is free of charge.
- Any initiative within the community is voluntary (not paid).
Members
Note: If you want to be added to the this section please contact us or create a pull request on our github repository.
(in randomized order on every page load)
- Merve Keskin
- Jakub Wabiński (Military University of Technology, PL)
- Olesia Ignateva (TU Wien, AT)
- Chelsea Nestel (Co-chair; UW Madison, US)
- Katarzyna Słomska-Przech (Co-chair; Polska Akademia Nauk, PL)
- Jakob Listabarth (TU Dresden, DE; IfL – Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, DE)
- Florian Ledermann (TU Wien, AT)
- Sebastian Meier (FH Potsdam, DE)
- Nianhua Liu (TU Munich, DE)
- Héctor Ochoa Ortiz (University of Camerino, IT)
- Tomas Vanicek (Palacký University Olomouc, Dept. of Geoinformatics, CZ)
- Ester Scheck (TU Wien, AT)
- Esther Amoako (University of Toledo, US, PhD candidate (ABD) Spatially Integrated Social Science)
- Narendra Kumar (Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, IN)
- Zulfa N Afifah (University of Augsburg, DE)
- Andrea Miletić (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy, HR)
- Juliane Cron (TU Munich, DE)
- Dilara Bozkurt
- Ulrike Holfeld (TU Wien, AT)
- Marcin Wereszczyński (University of Warsaw, PL)
- Samuel Darkwah Manu (TU Dresden, DE)