The French research and design group Bureau d´Études has been producing maps of contemporary political, social and economic systems that allow people to inform, reposition and empower themselves. Revealing what normally remains invisible, often in the shape of large-sized banners, and contextualising apparently separate elements within new frameworks, these visualisations of interests and relations re-articulate the dominant symbolic order and actualise existing structures that otherwise remain concealed and unknown.

This large-size hardcover book, panoramic in scope and theoretically both profound and accessible, is the atlas for an emancipatory new citizenship that utilises the opportunities of info-graphics from the local to the global and back again.

The Paris-based artists Léonore Bonaccini and Xavier Fourt form the artist-duo Bureau d’études. For the last several years, the French Group has been producing cartographies of contemporary political, social and economic systems.