oobrien.com
Conferences | Suprageography
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A blog by Oliver O'Brien, researcher at UCL Department of Geography. Digital cartography, data visualisation. I was at FOSS4G UK 2016. Which took place at the new Ordnance Survey buildings in Southampton, a few weeks ago. FOSS4G is short for “Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial”, and the conference focuses on some of the key free GIS software such as QGIS and PostGIS. This was a UK-focused event, following on from the global FOSS4G in Nottingham. In 2013, which I was also at. (The next FOSS4G.
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BODMAS | Suprageography
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A blog by Oliver O'Brien, researcher at UCL Department of Geography. Digital cartography, data visualisation. The Great British Bike to Work. Cross-posted from the DataShine blog. A little visualisation created with the DataShine platform. It’s the DataShine Commute. Sees a characteristic flow into the centre, while other cities, like Oxford. See flows throughout the city. Other cities are notable for their student flows, typically to campus from the nearby town, such as Lancaster. The Battle of the Roads.
ethiopiantimes.wordpress.com
Inside Addis Ababa’s Koshe rubbish tip: where hundreds literally scratch a living | ethiopiantimes
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August 23, 2014. Inside Addis Ababa’s Koshe rubbish tip: where hundreds literally scratch a living. 8212; ethiopiantimes @ 10:41 pm. Caroline Knowles in Addis Ababa. The guardian.com, Friday 22 August 2014. At the end of her journey to trace the life of a typical flip-flop. From oilfield to factory to street to trash Caroline Knowles was confronted with the Ethiopian capital’s largest landfill site. Between the dogs, the birds and the machines there was something else, something I could only slowly take ...
visualmethods.info
International Visual Methods Conference 5
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Cfp: visualising the city. Caroline writes about migration and circulations of material objects some of the social forces constituting globalisation. She is particularly interested in cities, having done research in London, Hong Kong, Beijing, Fuzhou, Addis Ababa, Kuwait City and Seoul. Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes and Journeys,. An Investigation of the Traffic between London, Hong Kong and Beijing’, and with Roger Burrows, Rowland Atkinson, Tim Butler and Mike Savage on ‘The Very Aff...
vmw.bard.berlin
Speakers – In/visibility and Difference: A Visual Methods Workshop
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In/visibility and Difference: A Visual Methods Workshop. Berlin, 3-4 December 2015. Afra Dekie holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (University of Leiden) and an MA in Film Studies and Visual Culture (University of Antwerp). In Leiden, Afra also studied visual ethnography and her first ethnographic film,. Agata Lisiak is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the TRANFORmIG. Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe. And gendered representations of revolution. Cynthia Browne is curre...
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Resources – In/visibility and Difference: A Visual Methods Workshop
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In/visibility and Difference: A Visual Methods Workshop. Berlin, 3-4 December 2015. VIDEO AND FILM PROJECTS. Wwwmigrantas.org/web migrantas english.html. Bard College Berlin and TRANSFORmIG, 2015.
muzeu.blogspot.com
Muzeul de Luni The Monday Museum: From slippers to flip-flops, researching the Global banal
http://muzeu.blogspot.com/2015/02/from-slippers-to-flip-flops.html
Muzeul de Luni The Monday Museum. Objects, stories and museums, things that attempt to break the barriers of what a cultural institution should do. Why the Monday Museum? Because some years ago in some parts of the world, museums were still closed on Mondays. There is this paradox of an every banal day spent thinking at materiality when institutions which are in charge with exhibiting materiality are closed. We invite you to like paradoxes and provocations no mater where and how. Joi, 5 februarie 2015.
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Muzeul de Luni The Monday Museum: februarie 2015
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Muzeul de Luni The Monday Museum. Objects, stories and museums, things that attempt to break the barriers of what a cultural institution should do. Why the Monday Museum? Because some years ago in some parts of the world, museums were still closed on Mondays. There is this paradox of an every banal day spent thinking at materiality when institutions which are in charge with exhibiting materiality are closed. We invite you to like paradoxes and provocations no mater where and how. Marți, 24 februarie 2015.
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