Here‘s an interesting article about a new way to map and re-discovery the ancient world through the technologies. For a quarter of a century, two archaeologists and their team slogged through wild tropical vegetation to investigate and map the remains of one of the largest Maya cities, in Central America. Slow, sweaty hacking with machetes [...]

This is a very interesting set of projects done some years ago by Dietmar Offenhuber:  subjective geographies in which the city is analysed through some particular point of views: 5 minutes places, Los Angeles in relative space, Loopcity . http://web.media.mit.edu/~dietmar/MappingContext/ “We usually consider space as being structured by absolute units. A meter is considered to have [...]

Last November Density Design has been invited by the School of Art and Architecture of Stockholm to organize a workshop of data visualization with the student of a master. They were working on the same topic, the city of Pune in India, trying to understand how to visualize some data about the city. Students had different background [...]

On March 23-24th i’ll held a conference in Bari, at the Polytechnic, about “Wayfinding and the Image of the City” During the first day i’ll talk about the history of wayfinding and maps, then we’ll start a short workshop about the visualization of the city. The students will be asked to think of their relationship [...]

A very interesting set of conferences will take place in Bari, October 22nd-23rd La Città senza nome – Nameless City Signs and Signages in the contemporary landscape The conference will be a good opportunity to discuss about the city, its shape, its function and its identity, together with many different experts, from semiotic or anthropology [...]

We have been officially invited to present the CityMurmur project at the Emerging Technologies conference at SIGGRAPH09. Citymumur NewOrleans will be launch on the 3rd of August on the occasion of the first day of the conference. For those who have never heard anything about the SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and [...]

On 3rd and 4th June, CityMurmur project (www.citymurmur.org) landed in Paris to take part to HyperUrbain.2, a conference about Information Technologies and Communication in urban areas, which was at its second edition this year. Theme of the symposium was “la ville cartographiée” (the city map), and to give our contribute to the discussion, we were [...]

My PhD Thesis – Work in progress, year 1/3. Throughout the centuries cities have been constantly changing, together with their image, their imageability. Therefore their graphic representations must be constantly ‘adapted’ to those changes too. Classic cartography deals with the topographic aspects of the cities, without explaining what happens inside them, describing their elements, whereas [...]

Our brand new PhD student Luigi Farrauto – one of the very first students of the Density Design Lab  – has been invited to give a conference at the “Ècole Biblique et Archéologique Francaise de Jerusalem” on the topic of cartography: “Vous êtes ici. Jérusalem dans l’histoire de la cartographie”. Luigi did his MA thesys [...]

From NewYork Times Interactive comes this simple visualization of the “common mood” during last SuperBowl. As the Steelers and Cardinals battled on the field, Twitter users across the nation pecked out a steady stream of “tweets.” The map shows the location and frequency of commonly used words in Super Bowl related messages.