The following text discusses the methodological implications of trust as an ethos in cartographic research. Based on authors such as William James, Daniel Stern, Sueli Rolnik and Vinciane Despret, we define trust in the interlacing of concepts such as engagement and indeterminacy. Trust predisposes us to act based on a former experience plan, earlier to determination of self and of the world, which contributes to the collective and participatory creation of knowledge. The construction issue and handling of bonds in the research process is conceived as an engagement regimen. Given that in the cartography knowledge production is inseparable from the construction of new existence conditions, the bet relies on trusting the experience implicating the promotion of a shared experience that expands the power of acting.
methodology; cartographic method; trust