Mapping and its Discontents

Sunday, 12/01/13

Brower Center
Tamalpais Room
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
Twitter hashtag: #GloUH

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Is a map a mirror, a window, a weapon, or a work of art? From lines drawn in clay to geographic information systems (GIS), humans for millennia have constructed an understanding of the world through visual representations of space. At this interdisciplinary symposium, mapmakers, users, and critics from the worlds of science, urban planning, architecture, history, and new media will examine the ways maps work.

"Mapping and Its Discontents" is part of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, a major 3.5-year project supported by the Mellon Foundation. In this joint project, the College of Environmental Design and the Division of Arts & Humanities are collaborating to bring together scholars and practitioners across disciplines to investigate humans and the environments they inhabit and shape.

This symposium is offered in partnership with the David Brower Center. We encourage attendees to also visit the Brower Center's exhibit, "Petrochemical America," on display until January 29, 2014.

Speaker Lineup (FOR FULL SCHEDULE CLICK HERE)

Eve Blau, Architectural Historian, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Jon Christensen, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Zephyr Frank, Stanford Spatial History Project

Robin Grossinger, Historical Ecology Program Manager, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Katharine Harmon, The Map as Art, You Are Here

Annette Kim, Director, MIT SLAB

Laura Kurgan, Director, Spatial Information Design Lab, Columbia University

Rebecca Solnit, Author, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas

Denis Wood, Geographer, Everything Sings

Registration

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