Dear List Members -
Thank you for your responses.
Carma, Marcella, Maria, Rob -
I had not seen the Pratt program - it makes total sense. As far as I can
tell, it has a cartography focus. Cartography is the clear overlap, and its
nice to see its nice to see it being taught in the context of a design
program. But I think what I am looking for are cases where the GIS is used
but the end result is not necessarily a map. The GIS informing the process
by allowing better decisions or possibly, inspiring creativity - full use
of the kind of rich, deep, geo-referenced data a GIS provides. For example,
a signage/wayfinding system created with GIS reserach (SQL queries and the
like)
As far as the point cloud question - I was speaking of terrestrial or
airborne LiDAR. I have seen 3D scanning in the industrial design process in
the manner you mention, but I am looking terrain modeling or
near-environment modeling.
I am also looking for remote sensing projects.
The reason I am interested in these things is that much of it is free.
Downloadable by ftp. Its there if you want it. We've had Landsat 1-8 in the
sky since the 70's Landsat 8 captures our Blue Marble in its entirety
every 16 days at 15 and 30 meter resolution - in 12 bands including thermal
and IR. Increasingly the same is true of airborne LiDAR. And much of it is
free. In the age of Big Data - other disciplines are using it, but
designers by and large are not (I know I am generalizing). But I think we
should.
I will give an example. I was working with a crew of civil engineering
students working on surveying and scanning a hill. They were interested in
getting great scans of the peak, and I was interested in lower slopes. It
occurred to me that they were thinking about the peak of the hill as great
place to situate antennas, towers, etc. I was interested in the slope
because I knew that people recreate on the slope on nice days. We
fundamentally approach the same task with different questions and ideas. My
feeling is that this happens a lot.
Marcella - I am interested in what you mean about using the GIS "more
freely" - I'd love to hear more about that.
Maria, Public Lab looks great - that's a great lead. At EDRA last year, I
met reps from this group - http://www.design-space.org/ They are working on
isovists and spatial syntax through GIS-like tools.
Rob - yes, most of the literature is from Geography, and some from
Environmental Psychology.There is a lot of work on the neuro-cognitive side
as well, which is useful to get background, but there is not much research
adding design into the pot.
Thanks to everyone-
Paul
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Rob Tovey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Having recently submitted my PhD on photo composites used in GIS, I can
> echo your findings. There's an odd, and arbitrary separation between
> scholarship in graphic/info design and that looking at mapping. The
> literature I found myself drawing on was broad and often tangential. It
> would be wonderful if the two areas could come together, although my
> suspicion is that there is a tension between the more discursive
> methodologies used in visual arts research and the scientific approach
> taken in GIS and geography.
>
> Having said that, there's some high quality research in information design
> and data visualisation that crosses the boundary. Everyone, for example,
> should have space in their life for a slice of Edward Tufte.
>
> Best,
>
> Rob
>
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> Senior Lecturer & Course Leader
> Creative Digital Media
> -
> University of Worcester
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