Alternative Cartography (Mapping the Unseen) is a site-specific project that reactivates disused noticeboards to create a new kind of map—one shaped by memory, emotion, and lived experience rather than official designation. What happens when we shift our attention from the planned and polished to the improvised and overlooked? What spaces become visible when we listen not only to those at the margins, but also to everyday users—passersby, dog walkers, local residents?

The project begins not with city plans or statistics, but with conversations—with people who spend time in the park for all kinds of reasons: to walk, to rest, to pass through, to find quiet, or simply because there is nowhere else to be. Their perspectives reveal an alternative geography: shaded corners, hidden trails, informal meeting spots, and makeshift places of pause. These are spaces that carry meaning but are rarely acknowledged. Through these shared insights, the old noticeboards—once used for formal announcements—are transformed into sites of listening, reflection, and reinterpretation.

The work is set in Krejcárek Park, an in-between space at the edge of the city, pressed up against a major road. The sound of traffic is ever-present, vibrating through the trees. Parts of the park are maintained and frequented by families, joggers, and dog walkers, but much of it remains raw and unresolved—overgrown, partly forgotten, shaped more by everyday use than by official design. In these contrasts, the park becomes a place of layered realities: between nature and infrastructure, visibility and neglect, stability and precarity.

Krejcárek is home to birds and plants, but also to human presences that are often overlooked—those experiencing housing insecurity, and those who simply pass through unnoticed. Here, survival, routine, and adaptation play out quietly, day after day. This project doesn’t aim to monumentalize these realities, but rather to register them—to hold space, to give form to what is otherwise unrecorded.

By mapping what is usually unseen, Alternative Cartography offers a gentle critique of how value is assigned in urban space. It invites viewers to reconsider what counts, who decides, and what we might notice if we paused long enough to see what someone else sees.