This panel discussion considers how quantitative values and numbers mediate how cities and lives are shaped.Banister Fletcher Panel Conversation: Mapping and Measures
Monday, March 15, 2021, 10:30 – 12:30 PDT
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/banister-fletcher-panel-conversation-mapping-and-measures-tickets-141422461389
This online panel conversation and its associated workshop, gathering scholars and practitioners from both sides of the Atlantic, will explore the methods and modes in which urban space has been and still is quantified through mapping techniques, numerical measures, and visualization technologies. Beginning with ontological questions of what is mapped and what is not, or cannot be, this panel discussion moves from historical considerations of how space and lives were translated into quantitative values, how numbers gained authority, and the ways numbers mediate how cities and lives are shaped, to critical and counter methods of mapping, measuring, and narrating history.
Given by University of London Institute in Paris.