There are uncountable ways to look at a river, yet many of them are invisible in today’s cartographic depictions.

A multitude of habitats, an economic backbone, a landscape of politics, a place of spirits and lore—there are uncountable ways to look at a river, yet many remain invisible in today’s cartographic depictions. Following their four-day experiment mapping a small section of the Danube River, artists Maud Canisius and Myriel Milicevic, together with anthropologist and photographer Thiago da Costa Oliveira and jurist and socio-legal scholar Xenia Chiaramonte, convene during The Shape of a Practice to discuss the intricacies of visually and legally representing a river.