network snapshot · 29 august 2026 · anonymized

What the Countercult map is showing us

The map is still small enough to read as a set of signals. It is also large enough to show a pattern: independent culture is not concentrated in one type of person, one kind of room, or one city.

At the time of this snapshot, the public map contains 48 published pins: 24 artists, 21 spaces, and 3 cultural artifacts. No names, profile links, exact coordinates, contact details, or individual photos are included on this page.

A network with a centre and edges

Berlin is currently the largest visible cluster, with 22 pins across the city and neighbourhood labels. New York has 3 public pins, while the wider network reaches cities in Europe, North America, Africa, and beyond. The useful signal is not a ranking of cities. It is that artists and spaces are already connecting across different kinds of scenes.

What is visible matters

Public pins make discovery possible: someone can find a space, understand its context, and decide whether to look closer. Private arrangements stay private. Room-swap details, personal logistics, and member-only exchange are intentionally kept outside this public snapshot.

A map can show where culture is. It cannot replace the trust that lets culture happen.

These numbers will change as the network grows. We are publishing them as a transparent, privacy-conscious view of the project—not as a leaderboard and not as a claim that a city’s culture can be reduced to a count.