https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/1454-digital-urbanisms-conference
The Digital Urbanisms Conference
October 11, 2019
The development of urban digital technologies and the deployment of digital information have evolved into a mutually reinforcing feedback loop between distributed sites of data production and extraction, and the planning and design of data-driven and evidence-based landscapes. Mobile social media, networks of sensors, and the ecology of connected devices termed the “Internet of Things,” among others, constitute infrastructures that harvest information, while advancing techniques of analysis and visualization have begun to describe and design sociopolitical and built environments in their image. Digital Urbanisms is a one-day symposium bringing together urban researchers and practitioners – planners, architects, geographers, organizers, and entrepreneurs – to take stock of the digital processes and products shaping cities, their promises, and problems, and discuss alternatives and approaches for operating within and against the uneven spaces they characterize.
Morning Session: Material, Materiel
Datascapes: Systems of Representation
This session questions the analysis and visualization of ‘big, social’ data. It examines the implications and suggestions, as well as its descriptions of social space with the hope of spurring a non-binary discussion of research and practice with respect to urban data and its representation(s) – whether visual, textual, statistical or otherwise conceived and made public.
Laura Bliss, West Coast Bureau Chief, CityLab
Justin Hollander, Professor and Director Urban Attitudes Lab, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
Taylor Shelton, Assistant Professor, Geography and GIS, Mississippi State University
Moderated by Mark Wasiuta
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