Legal Creatures: The Architecture of the Law | Carlijn Kingma

Carlijn Kingma examines the law as an invisible architecture, in collaboration with Thomas Bollen (Follow the Money). Autocratic leaders undermine the independence of the judiciary, while private interests use legal systems to evade climate responsibility. With the project Legal Creatures, Kingma aims to map these structures by using cartography.

In the first phase, she works with scientists to identify invisible legal instruments of power. She also develops a visual language with human-like ‘legal creatures’ to make abstract legal structures understandable. The first phase produces a visual framework with design principles and a proof-of-concept map, including documentation of metaphors and storylines. A detailed implementation plan for phase two is also being developed.