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Legal Creatures: The Architecture of the Law (phase two) | Carlijn Kingma

Open Call Fresh Perspectives2026
amount_issued: € 50.000

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.

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.

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