In a playful mapping project undertaken by three geographers, kites were deployed instead of drones and GPS, to gather data. In an effort to democratize cartography, this analogue-adjacent project relies on citizen science, crowdsourcing and the ethos of participation. More importantly, Jiří Pánek, Vít Pászto and Chris Perkins are just as interested in the affectual and emotional geographies that this creative methodology engendered to the researchers who participated.
If kites are stories, perhaps kite-flyers and kite-makers are storytellers.
Stories need storytellers, so to all academics, storytellers, cartographers, artists, marine ecologists, writers and kite-flyers: there is still time to send us your abstracts for the International Conference on Geographical Studies (ICGS) for 2026, before the submission link closes automatically on 30 September 2026. This year’s theme is Stories, Places: Storying, Storytelling and Storymaking Worlds. To read our original calls for abstract, click here and here.
Approach this call for abstract as akin to storytelling a narrative that unfolded a long time ago or continue to unfold as we speak. As Rebecca Solnit opines in Whose Story Is This: “[let’s] make a society in which everyone’s story gets told” (2019, 89). So send us your stories about aquatic ecologies and ludic geographies, whimsical wayfinding and transversal multitudes. Whether they are set in upland mining communities, mangrove barangays or urban coffeeshops, you decide on the scale, site and situation. They can also be sites of tension and rupture, as Maria Borovnik in storying the Tarawera region she encountered in New Zealand, mused: "the full story of this place will not be adequately understood" (2026, 101). Send us those stories-so-far, too!
Click this link to send your abstract. Results of abstract acceptance will be sent to your email by 16 October. You can also reach us via icgs.ph@gmail.com
Works Cited:
Maria Borovnik (2026). Relating: Storying Atmosphere of Place, Stories of Place: Geographies of Meaning, Memory and Connection, Palgrave Macmillan.
Jiří Pánek, Vít Pászto and Chris Perkins (2018). Flying a kite: playful mapping in a multidisciplinary field-course, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 42(3), 317-336.
Rebecca Solnit (2019). Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters, Haymarket Books.
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