The SAH Data Project is gathering quantitative and qualitative information about the status of architectural history as a field in higher education in the United States. The study is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and scheduled to be completed in December 2020. A full report of the findings will be available on the…
The US/Mexico border is home to unique spatial practices and resources, locally grounded but geographically distributed along its 1,954-mile length. This workshop provides a rare opportunity to condense this distributed content by convening a diversity of spatial practitioners, researchers, and educators in one virtual space, in order to outline challenges and opportunities specific to the…
Because Monday is a holiday, we’re having a DH Friday instead! Join Moderator Sarah M. Dreller, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH Data Project Researcher), for a SAH webinar, “The SAH Data Project Presents a Data-Driven Conversation about the Potential Future of Architectural History Research and Publishing” on Tuesday, May 26 at 9:00 AM (Pacific Time).…
It will be DH Friday on October 11 when we host Smith College’s Andrew Maurer who will give two hands-on workshops on 3D Visualization for the Humanities: Photogrammetry Basics (9:00am-12:00pm) – Photogrammetry, the process of using still images to produce digital 3D models, provides new possibilities for visualizing and interpreting cultural objects. In this hands-on…
In her most recent article in PLATFORM, “City Smarts: An App for Civic Engagement,” History of Art & Architecture Professor Swati Chattopadhyay discusses how she gets undergraduates in her ARTHI 136I: The City in History class to think about power and agency in the metropolis — to get smart about cities — by using the…
The Digital Scholarship Lab at University of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries outlines the process and outcome of the final course project for History 252: Immigration in the Americas, where students created Dynamic Maps Using CSV, Google Earth, KML and ArcGIS Online. In the project, “…[s]tudents developed original research based on archival and primary sources to…