Tag: maps
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Launching the Oak Bluffs Historic Highlands Map
Today is launch day and I am sharing completed my mapping project for the CHI 2021 – 2022 fellowship. For my Oak Bluffs Historic Highlands project, I have built the framework for a map that uses publicly available deed documents to represent the history of landownership in the Highlands area of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, a…
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Epistemic Violence and Resistance through Mapping Kinds
From the very beginning of the fellowship I was extremely eager to participate in the spatial mapping workshops. The reading I remember most from the only philosophy course I ever took defined map making as the process of using generalizations via simplification, symbolization, induction, and classification to construct a physical ontology [1]. This articulated an…
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Mapping What Is/Isn’t There
As a new fellow, I’m still getting a sense of what this all means, so please excuse the LiveJournal nature of the first few posts. Mapping, in my discipline, means something different than it does in most contexts. Essentially, mapping is an acknowledgment of “signposts”— trends, notable events, themes— across a story. At least this…