COURSE EPFL
Autumn 2025

Critical Cartography
Flore Guichot

Cartography is a foundational tool in urban design. Situated at the threshold between writing and reading, this course integrates qualitative and quantitative cartographic methods, combining field-based data collection with GIS tools and digital mapping techniques. Through critical analysis and hands-on exercises, students explore how maps both construct and interpret urban narratives, inform design decisions, and reveal social, environmental, and ecological challenges.

  1. INTRODUCTION

  2. WORKSHOP 1

  3. WORKSHOP 2

Team & contact

Flore Guichot

is an urbanist, research associate at the HRC at EPFL, and Coordinator and lecturer of the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design. More