As a natural extension of its artisanal and scientific vocation, Globe Sauter & Cie is involved in a nationwide research project: Sphérographia. Spearheaded by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), this programme brings together artists, researchers, museums and geographers around a single question: how can we represent the world differently?
Conceived as a tribute to Élisée Reclus – a visionary 19th-century geographer – Sphérographia questions the ways in which globes, maps and spatial representations construct our vision of reality. It’s a collective exploration of the “blank spaces” on maps, those little-known, forgotten or invisible areas. A fascinating field of research, at the crossroads of critical science, colonial history, geopolitics and the cartographic imagination.
Globe Sauter’s natural contribution to this project is the production of four analogue globes in plaster, based on the work of researchers on key themes such as biodiversity, rare earths and indigenous populations.
Sphérographia is much more than an academic project. It’s an invitation to think differently about the territory, to confront our geographical imaginations, to question what we think we know about the world map.
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