‘Mapping Care’ is a project that considers love not as something private, but as something we actively build together. Through a collection of stories, conversations, small rituals and everyday gestures gathered at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, the publication illustrates how care circulates among people, spaces and systems. It brings together voices from across the academy to demonstrate how love manifests as labour, attention, and mutual support. In this sense, love-making becomes a creative act and a form of resistance against isolation, precarity, and forgetting how to care for one another. The project questions institutionalised theories of care and community, placing them in relation to the reality of the actual, implemented acts of care present in our daily lives.