--- title: "The rolling cartographer" date: 2023-01-30 last_modified: 2023-02-15T15:47:33+01:00 generated_at: 2026-06-08T22:25:52Z url: "https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/en/article/the-rolling-cartographer" description: "In the WELTSTUDIO, the space for participation at BERLIN GLOBAL, there is the rolling cartographer. Guests can design individual maps here. In the series \"Favourite Object\" we introduce the cartographer." image: "https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/BG_210720_004_Weltstudio_Foto_Alexander_Rentsch.jpg" language: "en-US" --- # The rolling cartographer ![Ein Mann und eine Frau sitzen vor einem großen Stahlgerüst, in dem sich Holzkugeln befinden](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/BG_210720_004_Weltstudio_Foto_Alexander_Rentsch-300x200.jpg) Constanze Schröder > "It almost reaches to the ceiling. This thing that looks like an extremely ambitious marble run turns out to be a map archive." ![]() ![]() ![]() ## Constanze Schröder, head of the Outreach and Facilitation team at the Stadtmuseum Berlin and curator of the WELTSTUDIO, tells us why the rolling cartographer is her favourite object at BERLIN GLOBAL. ![](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/BG_210629_klein_066_Weltstudio_Foto_Oana_Popa-Costea-300x200.jpg) ### What is your favourite object at BERLIN GLOBAL? The BERLIN GLOBAL exhibition also includes the WELTSTUDIO, where three large-scale cartographers invite visitors to [participate](https://berlin-global-ausstellung.de/en/showroom/story/dots-on-the-chest/). They allow visitors to experience various methods of making maps in a new and creative way, and to critically question those methods. The *rolling cartographer*, which visitors use to create individual maps for other guests, is my favourite station. ## Who are you? What brought you to BERLIN GLOBAL? I’m Constanze Schröder, head of the Outreach and Facilitation team at Stadtmuseum Berlin. I’m also the curator of the WELTSTUDIO. In addition, I’m a member of the Humboldt Forum’s Cultural Education Programme Commission. That’s the team responsible for BERLIN GLOBAL’s bookable offers, educational programmes and participation projects. ## Why did you choose the rolling cartographer specifically as your favourite object? At this station, all the guests leave self-sketched directions to a personal favourite place – perhaps to the fountain of fairy tales in Volkspark Friedrichshain or to Naples’ best ice-cream parlour – folded up and enclosed in small wooden balls. If you send one of these messages with the *rolling cartographer*, it releases another ball up near the ceiling that rolls to you down a track, and then you get to look at a previous guest’s sketch from the archive. I like the idea that visitors take home a very personal and individually designed souvenir, and maybe one day they’ll even visit the place that’s been recommended to them. ## More objects [ ![Zu sehen ist eine Skulptur aus Menora, Halbmond und Kreuz im Raum Freiraum, im Hintergrund sind zwei große Leinwände zu sehen, auf denen ein Film läuft.](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2021-02-18_HumboldtForum_klein_034-300x200.jpg) ### Meeting in a coffee cup: Menorah. Crescent. Cross. In the room "Free Space" at BERLIN GLOBAL there is an area dedicated to the theme of faith. There is a cross-religious sculpture - originally intended as an alternative to the cross on the dome of the Humboldt Forum. In the series "Favourite Object" we present the sculpture. Artikel, 3 min Lesezeit ](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/en/article/meeting-in-a-coffee-cup-menorah-crescent-cross) [ ![Der Ghettoblaster von der Breakdance-Gruppe The City Rockers](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2021-05-21_HumboldtForum_014-scaled-1-300x200.jpg) ### The boombox from The City Rockers In the room "Entertainment" at BERLIN GLOBAL is a boombox by former TCR member José Alvarez. The City Rockers (TCR) were known as a break-dance group in Berlin in the 1980s. In the series "Favourite Object" we present the ghetto blaster. Artikel, 4 min Lesezeit ](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/en/article/the-boombox-from-the-city-rockers) [ ![Aufnahme von einem handgeschriebenen Kalenderblatt auf lindgrünem Grund](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Scherrmin3_Zettel-217x300.jpg) ### Sharmin’s Note A photo of "Sharmin's Note" hangs in the room "War" at BERLIN GLOBAL. The object is part of an interview project on the topic of flight. We present it in the series "Favourite Object". Artikel, 3 min Lesezeit ](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/en/article/sharmins-note) [ ![Das Begräbnis bezahlbarer Mieten in der Ausstellung BERLIN GLOBAL](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/BG_20210301_klein_049_Freiraum_Mietengrab_Foto_Oana_Popa-Costea-300x200.jpg) ### Funeral of Affordable Rents In the room "Free Space" at BERLIN GLOBAL stands the "Funeral of Affordable Rents" by the artist collective Rocco and his brothers. In 2016, the artists installed the work on a street corner in Kreuzberg to draw attention to the exploding rents. In the series "Favourite Object" we present the object restored for the exhibition. Artikel, 3 min Lesezeit ](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/en/article/funeral-of-affordable-rents) [ ![Ausschnitt aus dem Wandbild im Raum „Revolution“ von Hanaa El Degham.](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/BG_20201119_klein_108_Revolution_Wandbild_Foto_Oana_Popa-Costea-300x200.jpg) ### The Rebirth of Osiris The mural "The Rebirth of Osiris" by the Egyptian artist Hanaa El Degham can be seen in the room "Revolution". We present it in the series "Favourite Object". Artikel, 3 min Lesezeit ](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/en/article/the-rebirth-of-osiris) [ ![Die Vorstellung der Tresortür des ehemaligen Techno-Clubs auf der Ausstellungsfläche von BERLIN GLOBAL im Humboldt Forum.](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/22A5726-scaled-1-300x196.jpg) ### The door of the techno-club “Tresor” Between the rooms "Free Space" and "Boundaries" at BERLIN GLOBAL stands a very special door: the steel door of the legendary club "Tresor" at Leipziger Straße 126a. In the series "Favourite Object" we present it. Artikel, 4 min Lesezeit ](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/en/article/the-door-of-the-techno-club-tresor)