by Isabel Kramlinger | Jan 7, 2019 | DUR January 2019
After three days of DUR in the books, I am officially an expert map-maker. Well, I made a map, but it’s a start! While discovering the exciting world of cartography through revising Atlas Historique de la Musique’s map on Mozart’s Travels, I connected with the...
by west3 | Jan 7, 2019 | DUR January 2019
I am sure every researcher has been prepped about the necessity and inevitability of failure in the research process. That being said, it still came as a surprise to me when I realized just how difficult thorough data collection is while trying to envision how I would...
by William Beimers | Jan 7, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Boy it has been a busy few days. When I first started last Thursday I had never heard of GIS, Google MyMaps, critical spatial thinking, the digital/spatial humanities, or data cleaning. Not to mention the various Renaissance composers, works, or cities that have been...
by Eric Holdhusen | Jan 7, 2019 | DUR January 2019
There’s something about making a map that feels incredibly nostalgic, and maybe even light-hearted. I don’t know if its simply working with colors and visuals that brings me back to scribbling capitals onto the pictures of states in grade school or...
by Ian Schipper | Jan 7, 2019 | DUR January 2019
The purpose of mapping has always been to convey information, whether specifically or generally. In recent years, the so-called “spacial turn” has changed what kind of information maps should convey, but it didn’t change that fundamental truth. ...
by Reed Williams | Jan 7, 2019 | DUR January 2019
There is a quote from Diana Sinton’s “Critical Spatial Thinking” that stuck during the first read through, and will continue to stick with me as the mapping process continues: “eliminating uncertainty may be an impossible task but acknowledging and understanding it is...
