Charting The Digital

European Research Council (ERC) project investigating how digital maps can be understood as new media technologies and cartographies.

[Dr Kate McLean @katemclean]

#following a #gondola by #running #Venice #playingthecity #mapping w/ @chartthedigital #CTD16

[Dr Kate McLean @katemclean]

#detouring the #map with Mike Duggan - affordance of #faceless slide is same as #content-filled #learned #human #behaviour #CTD16

[Sam Hind @samhind10]

Mike Duggan making the important distinction between 'surface' and 'interface'. One is not the other. #ctd16

[Charting The Digital @chartthedigital]

Duggan: mapping interfaces as 'relational modes of possibility'. #ctd16

[Charting The Digital @chartthedigital]

...and our last presenter: Michael Duggan on 'Maps and Urban Cultures'. #ctd16

[Charting The Digital @chartthedigital]

Final session of #ctd16 | Detours.

[Sam Hind @samhind10]

Students in HK emerging from background of so-called 'Umbrella Revolution'. Imbrication of space + tech. #ctd16

[Charting The Digital @chartthedigital]

On now: Max Willis + Huaxin Wei on 'Design for Interactive Entertainment'. #ctd16

[Dr Kate McLean @katemclean]

More #questions than #answers - can map design change human behaviour? @jonnyhuck on dynamic visual hierarchy & feature abstraction #CTD16

[Sam Hind @samhind10]

I like @jonnyhuck's bold cartographic demands! #ctd16

[Sam Hind @samhind10]

Google Maps as 'blandscape' poses design as well as use issues. #ctd16

[Sam Hind @samhind10]

Jonny Huck talking about 'Pac-Lan' (for copyright issues and the fact the game was played in Lancaster!) #ctd16

[Charting The Digital @chartthedigital]

Up now: Jonny Huck on 'Can map design affect user behaviour?' #ctd16

[Charting The Digital @chartthedigital]

Jirka Panek: not always easy to get male participants to admit + map locations where they feel unsafe. #ctd16

[Sam Hind @samhind10]

Jirka Panek on difficulties of mapping user content. #ctd16

[Charting The Digital @chartthedigital]

Up now: Jirka Panek on 'Emotional maps in the context of participatory planning'. #ctd16

[Charting The Digital @chartthedigital]

Chris Perkins ends with an 'anti-conclusion' (!) #ctd16

[Charting The Digital @chartthedigital]

Bieke Cattoor: for Naomi Bueno de Mesquita 'instability' and invisibility as driving forces for her app development. #ctd16

[Charting The Digital @chartthedigital]

Bieke Cattoor: various tensions emergent in @katemclean's smellmapping - individuality/sociality etc. #ctd16