OUR SUMMER PROGRAMME STARTS WITH A PUBLIC LECTURE BY ONE OF OUR LEADING CULTURAL GEOGRAPHERS
WHEN April 27th 6-8pm
WHERE:: Room G02 Bartlett School of Architecture 140
Hampstead Road London NW1 2BY
PROFESSOR GILLIAN ROSE on Shaping the digital city: visualising the
city with data and light
Discussant Tim Edensor
Digital technologies of various kinds are now the means
through which many cities are made visible.
This talk will work through some of the implications of that digitisation
for the cultural politics of representation, especially but by no means only in
the Global North. What and who is being made visible in these digitally
mediated cities, and how?
What forms of urban materiality, spatiality and sociality are
pictured? And how should that picturing
be theorised? Using a range of examples
from current efforts to show us 'smart cities', the talk will examine the shape
of the urban futures that they offer.
Gillian is Professor of Cultural Geography at The Open
University, UK, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her current research interests focus on
contemporary digital visual culture, urban spatialities and visual research
methodologies. Her most recent funded
research (with Monica Degen) examined how architects work with digital
visualising technologies in designing urban redevelopment projects, and she is
extending this work into the digital mediation of urban spaces more broadly,
particularly in the context of 'smart cities'. She is the author of Feminism and Geography (Polity, 1993)
and Doing Family Photography: The
Domestic, The Public and The Politics of Sentiment (Ashgate, 2010). The fourth edition of her bestselling Visual Methodologies (Sage) will be
published in 2016.
Tim teaches cultural
geography at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Tourists at the Taj (1986), National
Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life (2002) and Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality (2005), as well
as the editor of Geographies of Rhythm
(2010) and co-editor of Spaces of
Vernacular Creativity (2009) and
Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities (2011). Minnesota
University Press will publish his forthcoming book, Light and Dark, in 2016.
Tickets £10.00 and £7.00 concessions.
To book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-the-digital-city-visualising-the-city-with-data-and-light-tickets-24444325636
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