Space represented on geographical maps is ordered and navigable, allowing you to ‘know’ features and layouts of places before visiting and finding landmarks, pathways and spaces of importance that connect you from one point to another, reducing possibilities for disorientation. Maps ‘work’ because they represent a reality already ordered and structured. We argue that this order could be considered a form of Biesta’s (2011) socialisation conception of civic learning, where the map reader can know in advance where they are going and what they will find. However, regarding interactions with derelict, historical, new or ‘missing’ spaces, the use of maps with residents can create different understandings of place. The map within these engagements stimulates the unexpectedness necessary to disrupt space as seen ‘from above’. These ground-level disruptions, we argue, are a necessary part of subjectification processes (Biesta 2011): the map-reader becomes map-maker in the creation of an alternative engagement with their landscape. In our presentation we report on an empirical study in Southwest Scotland utilising a psychogeographical methodology that deconstructs mapreading and mapmaking ‘order’, exposing it to re-explorations by individuals, who in turn construct tri-layered spatial, temporal and relational maps towards their subjectification and emergence as political agents.