Week 10 Crowdmapping in your own surroundings
20 (Tu 12 Nov) Discussion of mobile data collection. What kinds of data stories can we tell about our surroundings?
Before class, download the Survey 123 app for your phone in advance of class. App Store | Google Play
Then, download the “trees of the highline survey”.
In class, we will complete the survey for at least ten trees on the highline. We will come back to class and map them.
We 13 Nov, 6-7pm Optional ideation session for final projects (C2 339)
21 (Th 14 Nov) No meeting in the classroom. Use this period to document a spatial phenomenon on campus. Be ready to share it as a map in ArcGIS Online next week.
Week 11
22 (Tu 19 Nov) Looking at Urban Mapping Projects
Linguistic Landscapes of Beirut, Mapping Edinburgh’s Social History, Shanghai Street Food, New York Scapes, Mapping Little Bangladesh
Check out this course at NYU Shanghai on culture mapping and this one at NYU New York and Buenos Aires
Discussion: With what depth do the mapping projects document urban space? How is the individual inscribed in such projects? In your individual project, you won’t be able to achieve the size of the data that we can see here. If you would make a culture map of NYUAD campus or Abu Dhabi what would it include? Ideas: graffiti, karak stands (this one is partially mapped here), public art on the corniche, different Arabic stores of Khalidiya, services at the different Hafilat stops, varieties of baqala in a specific neighborhoods, location of perfume shops, the difference between the inside and the outside of superblocks, the presence of your native language in public space in Abu Dhabi…
Wrisley/Hawat/Rahme “Creating Geotagged Humanities Data”
We 20 Nov, 5-6pm Optional ideation session for final projects (C2 339)
23 (Th 21 Nov) In class lab
Learning to embed ArcGis and StoryMap.
22 Nov Collective project due
Blog 4: Describe the concept of your final project. To what concepts in the reading will you link it? What elements of human space will you bring together? Geographic coordinates? georeferenced maps? mobile data collection? self-quantification? derive-style discovery? community building? What kinds of tools will you use? Will your information on the map only represent evidence or will you include affect, interpretation or uncertainty? If your structured dataset is connected to the project (it does not have to be!), then what exactly is the relationship of the two? (due 25 Nov) If some of your posting repeats what you express in your report about the final project, you can link back to this posting.
Week 12
Mo 25 Nov, 6-7pm Optional ideation session for final projects (C2 339)
23 (Tu 26 Nov) Final labs
24 (Th 28 Nov) Final labs
Weeks 13 and 14 Lab – Finalizing semester projects
25 (Tu 3 Dec) No class. Commemoration and National Day
26 (Th 5 Dec) Describing our datasets for publication in NYU’s Spatial Data Repository (with Taylor)
Blog 5: Write to a family member about the big issues of this course.
Optional final consultations: 15 Dec 16 Dec and 17 Dec, 9-5pm, instructor’s office. Please contact me directly to book your time to be sure to have a chance to meet me.
All work due: 17 Dec, 11:59 pm