Experimental Digital Mapping // Back to the Future // 1: Theory
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Date: 3/24/2023
Time: 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM Mountain Time
Room: Capitol Ballroom 2, Hyatt Regency, Fourth Floor
Type: Paper,
Theme:
Curated Track:
Sponsor Group(s):
Digital Geographies Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Evangeline McGlynn University of California Berkeley
Will B. Payne Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Chair(s):
Will B. Payne Rutgers University
Description:
Since the so-called "democratization of cartography," digital maps are more and more a part of the lives of non-specialists, be it increasing quotidian reliance on GPS-enabled navigation maps through mobile devices or the increasing spatial indexing of shops and restaurants as an entry point to selecting a provider of goods and services. Further, with the proliferation of powerful spatial libraries in javascript and python, generating spatial visualizations without traditional GIS is more and more common.
However, even using web programming and open-source tools, the logic of (usually ESRI-flavored) GIS is still pervasive in the way we represent space; Cartesian coordinates, standard projections, and smoothly gliding Web Mercator "experiences" are the norm. What about cartograms? Non-linear distance transformations? Discontinuous spaces? Non-linear distance scales? Mental maps? Pictorial maps? "Glitchy" or disorienting spatialities (Leszczynski and Elwood 2022)? Who is pushing back against the slippy map and its slippery universalism, and with what tools?
While situating ourselves within the tradition of Critical GIS (Thatcher et al. 2016), this session is specifically devoted to pushing beyond traditional GIS, toward, in the words of Bergmann & Lally (2020), "geographical imagination systems." Our interest in not just in thinking in new ways of visualizing space, but also in reclaiming visual vernaculars that have fallen by the wayside (Bunge 1962; Forer 1978; Hägerstrand 1957).
This session is a showcase of new experiments in digital spatial representation beyond pin maps and polygons as well as excavation of historicized methods. Both in theoretical intervention and practical application, we're here for "Weird GIS."
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Ashra Wickramathilaka |
Understanding Contemporary Urban Spaces: Techniques for Mapping People’s Spaces |
Alexis Wood |
All your base [maps] are belong to us: rethinking cartographic starting points in urban planning and geographic information science |
Eric Huntley, MIT |
Map Up, Down, and Around: Working Through the Cartographic Implications of Critical Practice |
Lily Crandall-Oral |
Making space for deep mapping: theory as praxis |
Matthew Wilson, University of Kentucky |
Interpreting the drawn line |
Non-Presenting Participants
| Role | Participant |
| Discussant | Jim Thatcher |
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Experimental Digital Mapping // Back to the Future // 1: Theory
Description
Type: Paper,
Date: 3/24/2023
Time: 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM MT
Room: Capitol Ballroom 2, Hyatt Regency, Fourth Floor
Contact the Primary Organizer
Evangeline McGlynn University of California Berkeley
emcglynn@berkeley.edu
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