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Space & Place II: Visualization & Digital Storytelling
How do scholars and activists use infographics, data visualizations, and novel digital storytelling techniques to explore lived experience and flip imaginations of space and place?
Speakers
Architect and UX designer specializing in data visualization, visual storytelling, and learning through play. Led award-winning infographics projects with Visualizing Impact and initiated Palestine Open Maps. Has facilitated courses and workshops in Beirut, London, Lisbon, Amman, and Bangalore. In 2021 led data visualization for the UK Census at the Office for National Statistics.
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at AUB. Scholarly work explores mapping as a method for researching and analyzing socio-spatial phenomena. Co-founder of Beirut Urban Lab (a collaborative, interdisciplinary research space) and Director of Critical Mapping there.
New media artist and software theorist. Assistant Professor of Emerging Media at the School of Media Studies, The New School. PhD in Film and Digital Media from UC Santa Cruz. Research examines how software interfaces with archives of memory in non-Western contexts. Published in Feminist Media Histories and Sounding Out. Work exhibited at museums and festivals across the US and Canada.
Discussant
Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies. Research focuses on global and transnational media, visual culture, Lebanon and the Middle East, and critical theory — particularly on media technology's role in the production and contestation of urban space. Forthcoming: Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure (Duke University Press, 2021).
About This Session
This session explores how scholars and activists use infographics, visualizations, and novel digital storytelling techniques to explore lived experience and flip imaginations of space and place. How do individuals and initiatives create new visual narratives around social issues, and how can visualizations be integrated into research and teaching?
Paired with seminar
Session 12 → Module V: Digital Storytelling: Text/Image/Sound/Video