20 Oct 2017 Discussion: Visualizing Global Asia. Materials and Techniques

Global Asia Colloquium 

Friday 20 October KJCC 602 (53 Wash Sq So) with wine and cheese

 
David Ludden
“Visualizing Global Asia”
How to we most effectively picture interactions of mobility and territoriality? Bring ideas ideas and images and/or send links to del5@nyu.edu to inform this presentation and discussion of a problem that connects Global Asia research and teaching and haunts me in my Global Asia class, which demands visual presentations. It also haunts my thinking about how to physically describe Global Asia as a conceptual space. Using computer technology to solve this and related problems will be a project for workshops during our three-year Luce project on “Port City Environments in Global Asia.” This discussion is one step toward designing those workshops.

Norman’s orbis mapping of ancient Mediterranean got us started.There, as typically, territory is depicted as an area enclosed by lines (often tinted in maps with color). Mobility is represented, as normally, with lines (often with arrows or just lines) connecting dots to represent places. But how might we represent spaces being formed by interactions of mobility-territoriality over time? This is a challenge for all the Global Asia clusters in our Port City project: 1) Imperial Connections, (2) Local (port) Environments, (3) Routes of Mobility, (4) Mobile Cultural Forms, (5) Temporality (the ancient world, transformations and comparisons)?

I have some ideas that I am anxious to share and I am hoping we can generate some ideas to enrich the Luce grant application (with supplementary material).

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