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Call for posters – RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2014, London, 26th-29th August.
Visualizing Economic Geographies
Posters, graphics, visualisations, photography and art works are invited for a session at the RGS-IBG 2014 entitled Visualizing Economic Geographies.
“At their best, graphics are instruments for reasoning about quantitative information. Often the most effective way to describe, explain and summarize a set of numbers…is to look at pictures of these numbers. Furthermore, of all the methods for analyzing and communicating statistical information, well-designed data graphics are usually the simplest and at the same time the most powerful.”
(Tufte, 2001: 10)
Economic geographers have long used diagrams and data maps as tools for the exploration of economic activity. The development of more powerful software for analyzing the increasing amounts of information available enables us to gain insights into more economic flows, relationships and transactions than ever before. Novel forms of depiction are used which inform and please the eye, engaging with methodologies from disciplines as disparate as computational science and art. These exciting developments are reflected in publications such as Environment and Planning A’s featured graphics section, the Journal of Maps and new kinds of atlas.
Beyond the academy government bodies, local authorities, charities, private enterprise and media are increasingly engaged in data-driven work. They produce visualizations to communicate information that attempt to persuade, seduce and coerce audiences to their way of thinking. This provides new opportunities for geographers to critique the power geometries of an emergent political economy of data visualization, but also to co-produce critically informed work with various stakeholders which undermines processes (re)producing uneven development.
The aim of this session is to showcase research through visualization, demonstrate exciting ways of visualizing economic geographies, and engage critically with production of geographies through visualization. Contributions in various visual forms are invited which:
• visualizes economic geographies in novel and interesting ways
• showcases methodological approaches to visualization
• exemplifies the visualization of qualitative information
• reports research in visual forms
• critiques visualization
• illustrate how visualisation can engage wider audiences
Please send abstracts of upto 250 words including details of the format of your poster/visualization/photography/art to Jon Swords ([log in to unmask]) by 3rd February, 2014.
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