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ATLAS 001—010

The world as an index.

A living atlas connecting places, clubs, people, objects, routes, sounds, systems and stories across the worlds of TheGRIN.io.

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GEODETIC RESEARCH GLOBE / V1.2

Atlas

Select a coordinate to open its record. Drag the Earth to rotate it; every marker is projected from its real latitude and longitude.

LATITUDELONGITUDE

001 / EUROPE / PUBLISHED

51.5074° / -0.1278°

WORLD CLUB

London

Hackney Marshes / Arsenal

Home ground: pitches, migration, memory and the infrastructures of belonging.

Grassroots / Industry / Community

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002 / EUROPE / DEVELOPING

43.2965° / 5.3698°

WORLD CLUB

Marseille

The port / Stade Vélodrome

A port city read through shirts, terraces, radio, routes and rival ideas of home.

Port / Diaspora / Sound

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003 / AFRICA / DEVELOPING

-26.2041° / 28.0473°

WORLD CLUB

Johannesburg

Soweto / Orlando / Soccer City

What remains after the stadium: public space, township football and lived infrastructure.

Legacy / Public space / Memory

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004 / AMERICAS / DEVELOPING

19.4326° / -99.1332°

WORLD CLUB

Mexico City

The city as club / Azteca

Routes, neighbourhood clubs and objects leading toward a city-wide field atlas.

Routes / Objects / 2026

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005 / AMERICAS / RESEARCH

-22.9068° / -43.1729°

WORLD CLUB

Rio de Janeiro

Maracanã / streets / beaches

Football as civic theatre, informal movement and a language shared across the city.

Art / Myth / Public life

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006 / AMERICAS / RESEARCH

-23.5505° / -46.6333°

WORLD CLUB

São Paulo

Clubs / design / modernism

The dense city, its competing institutions and the visual systems of Brazilian football.

Design / Clubs / City

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007 / ASIA / RESEARCH

37.5665° / 126.9780°

WORLD CLUB

Seoul

World Cup Stadium / street culture

A study of tournament architecture, supporter culture and football after the event.

Architecture / Youth / Afterlife

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008 / EUROPE / RESEARCH

52.3676° / 4.9041°

WORLD CLUB

Amsterdam

Ajax / neighbourhood systems

Design, education and the pathways through which a city reproduces its football ideas.

Design / Pathway / System

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009 / EUROPE / RESEARCH

43.7384° / 7.4246°

WORLD CLUB

Monaco

Stade Louis II / circulation

A small territory with an outsized role in player movement, spectacle and memory.

Mobility / Archive / Scale

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010 / EUROPE / RESEARCH

48.8566° / 2.3522°

WORLD CLUB

Paris

Banlieues / pathways / style

How talent, fashion and identity travel from the edges of the city to the world.

Pathway / Style / Identity

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PUBLISHEDDEVELOPINGRESEARCH

PLACES / ROUTES / RELATIONSHIPS

Index

Each record can gather essays, Field Notes, photography, sound, films and objects around one place.

001LondonHackney Marshes / ArsenalPUBLISHED ↗ 002MarseilleThe port / Stade VélodromeDEVELOPING ↗ 003JohannesburgSoweto / Orlando / Soccer CityDEVELOPING ↗ 004Mexico CityThe city as club / AztecaDEVELOPING ↗ 005Rio de JaneiroMaracanã / streets / beachesRESEARCH ↗ 006São PauloClubs / design / modernismRESEARCH ↗ 007SeoulWorld Cup Stadium / street cultureRESEARCH ↗ 008AmsterdamAjax / neighbourhood systemsRESEARCH ↗ 009MonacoStade Louis II / circulationRESEARCH ↗ 010ParisBanlieues / pathways / styleRESEARCH ↗

THE COORDINATES METHOD

Not a travel guide.
A map of belonging.

Begin with a place. Follow its relationships into neighbourhoods, routes, public space, sport, sound, objects, oral histories and imagined systems.

Records become Coordinates. Coordinates connect into an atlas. Categories reveal the distinct worlds—and the crossings between them.

Not a travel guide.A map of belonging.

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Not a travel guide.
A map of belonging.