URBAN MAPPING: NEW PERSPECTIVES: A cross-disciplinary workshop on approaches to cartography in the arts and sciences (original) (raw)

The workshop on the first day of this two-day event considered diverse cartographic approaches to understanding and representing urban space. Through the interdisciplinary composition of the three panels, it set out to establish and sustain dialogues across the arts, humanities, social sciences and engineering. The presentations addressed: (i) maps as sources for analysing and conceptualising urban space, both historical and contemporary (in research) and for visualising and communicating new spatial understandings (in teaching and public engagement); (ii) the craft, method and performance of urban mapping, especially, but not only, with regard to new cartographic technologies; and (iii) the cultural role and significance of urban maps, atlases, and cartographic models. The workshop was targeted at scholars from various backgrounds, and promoted the diffusion of both the latest cartographic know-how and new critical perspectives on mapping across traditional disciplinary boundaries. To scholars from the arts, humanities and social sciences it showcased the technological prospects, possibilities and limits of urban mapping. To scholars from the sciences and engineering it promoted critical reflection on the purpose and potential of visualising urban data.