Mapping Eastern Europe is a platform intended to promote study, teaching, and research about Eastern Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries. Users can access content written by specialists in the form of historical overviews, art historical case studies, short notices about ongoing research projects, and reviews of recent books and exhibitions. This platform aims…
Not Even Past: Social Vulnerability and the Legacy of Redlining visually documents formal and informal systemic practices of racial residential segregation in the U.S. during the twentieth century. Not Even Past presents maps for 200 cities, where for each city there are two maps side by side separated by a diagram. The left map shows…
About this Free Event This session by Collections and Services, Library Services, Library of Congress, and co-hosted with the International Confederation of Architectural Museums (ICAM), will explore the strengths and challenges that born-digital design files present for collecting, accessing for research, and exhibiting. Four presentations from the critical perspectives of technologists, curators, academics, and archivists…
Efstratios Stylianidis, Assoc. Professor, School of Spatial Planning and Development at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, has written a book, Photogrammetric Survey for the Recording and Documentation of Historic Buildings (Chambridge: Springer, 2020), that (from the publisher) “…provides state-of-the-art information on photogrammetry for cultural heritage, exploring the problems and presenting solutions that are applicable under…
From The Art Newspaper Blog: Before Google Street View, there was Ed Ruscha. In 1966, the Los Angeles artist first drove along the Sunset Strip with a motorised camera mounted to the back of his truck, using it to photograph the entire street in a manner that uncannily predicted today’s online mapping technology. He compiled…
Places Journal has published a six-part series of essays addressing and exploring the shift to online teaching. From their summary: The massive move to online teaching has raised acute challenges and general anxieties. Some are practical and technical; others are more conceptual, political, and even philosophical, involving the importance of campus community, the role of…