Join the Artist, Theodore Koterwas, for a Guided Lunchtime Tour of Mapping the Anthropocene exhibition.

Mapping the Anthropocene: Guided Tour

Guided Lunchtime Tour

This intimate guided tour involves a walk-through of the artwork and resources on display, with curator and researcher Dr Inge Panneels, providing the opportunity for more detailed insights into the concepts behind the work and the context within humanities research. Panneels has written extensively about critical cartography and creative mapping and invites audiences on a journey to explore mapping as a method to understand complex systems, relationships and power structures

Date: Thurs 12 Nov, 2026
Times: 13:00-14:00 (1hr) | Free/Ticketed 
Location: Inspace, 1 Crichton St, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Audience: General public
Venue Access features: Accessible toilets, Assistance dogs welcome, Baby changing facilities, Seating, Step-free access, Wheelchair accessible

This event has limited capacity and so registration is preferred. Drop-ins are welcome, but participants with tickets are guaranteed entry. If you have any enquiries about the events and venues, please contact event organisers at designinformatics@ed.ac.uk

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Curator/Researcher

Dr. Inge Panneels is an artist, researcher and lecturer in Service Design at University of Edinburgh, based in the School of Design and Edinburgh Futures Institute. She has published extensively on mapping and sustainability in the creative industries. She has worked with British Council and Applied Arts Scotland and was Specialist Advisor for Creative Scotland and Scottish Arts Council. She was a Trustee of Edinburgh Tool Library and currently chair of Creative Coathanger.

She was a Research Fellow and Lecturer in digital Media at Edinburgh Napier University and Senior Lecturer at the Artist Designer Maker course, University of Sunderland.

She has her own studio practice with both public art experience and the delivery of cultural projects (e.g. festivals and events) as well as creative programmes of events and exhibitions.


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Supported by

This programme is partially funded by the ESRC Festival of Social Science, with support from the Institute for Design Informatics, and Inspace. This programme is also part of the Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 5 – 14 November 2026. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org.

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